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...consideration, the Custom Tailors Guild announced its annual selec tion of the ten best-dressed men in the U.S. Top man (in public life): 82-year-old Bernard Baruch. The nine runners-up: Cleveland Indians General Manager Hank Greenberg, 41 (sports), Hotelman Conrad Hilton, 63 (industry), Band Leader Guy Lombardo, 50 (music), Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 40 (society), Arthur Murray, 57 (dancing), Yul Brynner, 36 (stage), Robert Montgomery, 48 (radio-TV), Gene Kelly, 40 (screen), Paper Manufacturer Harry E. Gould, 54 (business...
Blue Tango (Leroy Anderson; Decca). A sort of poor man's Third Man Theme, set to jolting Latin rhythm. This version by the composer triumphs over those by Xavier Cugat, Guy Lombardo...
...corridors of Tin Pan Alley's Pentagon-the Brill Building, on Broadway-oldtime songwriters are taking it big. A novice at the trade has written a catchy song called Snowflakes, Guy Lombardo has recorded it for Decca, and song sheets and records are selling in a flurry. The successful tunesmith: a nine-year-old girl from Brooklyn, a fourth-grader who doesn't even know Billboard from Variety...
...aunt, a onetime supper-club singer named Sandra Kent, wrote it out. Marjorie's father, an amateur violinist, thought the lyrics were too repetitious, but Aunt Sandra dis« agreed. She landed Marjorie's song on g CBS-TV program last month, and later. Guy Lombardo heard it. Lombardo investigated and decided that it was true: Marjorie had really composed the song herself-without help even from her uncle, Songwriter Jim Morehead. In two weeks, orders for recordings have reached almost the quarter-million mark. The song seems a certain hit, and if it is, Marjorie will earn...
...Manhattan, Orchestra Leader Guy Lombardo finished his nightly stint at the Roosevelt Hotel, headed for his home in Long Island and drove his sleek British Jaguar straight into a traffic tragedy. Result: one man killed, a woman seriously injured. Lombardo was released without being charged; the pedestrians had apparently stepped into the street against a traffic light...