Word: lombardo
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...heel playing this terrible music all day. But, I tell you this, anybody who's got a good rating has gotta play lousy music. For five years in the beginning I tried to play good stuff- Louis, the Duke, Bix. I starved. Then one day I played a Lombardo record; a week later I had a sponsor. Let's face it, this is a bastardized...
...studio, which cost $150,000, is run under a franchise from Murray by Mrs. Ethel Fistere, who has taught such celebrities as Henry Morgenthau Jr., Rudy Vallee, Eleanor Roosevelt and Guy Lombardo to dance. Its airy ballroom resembles an outdoor terrace, with three cages of parakeets at one end; there are eight smaller dance, studios into which music is piped all day long, with different tunes available at the flip of a switch...
...pals who got strangleholds on many business activities. In March he struck hard to smash the monopoly of Mexico City oil distribution, held by pistol-packing Multimillionaire Jorge Pas-quel of Mexican-baseball-league fame. Then, in succession, he expertly dethroned Transport King Antonio Díaz Lombardo, who had made $40 million as boss of the bus lines and head of Alemán's lucrative Social Security Department, and loosened the grip of Multimillionaire Aaron Saenz on Mexico's sugar industry. Pledged to lower food prices, the President also smashed the monopolistic plays of middlemen...
...mother's family name) he took off from New York on a Pan-American Stratocruiser for Paris. He was accompanied by five companions, of whom Mexico City papers named only such notables as Carlos Serrano, ex-president of the Senate, and Antonio Díaz Lombardo, former director of social security and one of the new millionaires of the Alemán administration. Within a few hours the capital buzzed with another name. According to the passenger manifest, it was that of Alemán's great and enduring friend, Brazilian Actress Leonora Amar, whom he had raised...
James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the A.F.M., announced last week that his union will pick up the tab for all the music at the inauguration, including the performances of such high-priced bands as Guy Lombardo, Fred Waring, Emil Coleman and Wayne King. "I think we're showing the people that even though we voted for Roosevelt and Stevenson we're going along with Ike, even though he is a Republican President . . . Ike is my friend...