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...last week voted far & away the best performer on the air. Polled by the magazine Billboard, 324 U.S. radio editors also liked, as tops in their class: Information Please, Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore, H. V. Kaltenborn, Bob Hope, Sports Announcer Bill Stern, the Lux Radio Theater, Guy Lombardo (for light music) and the New York Philharmonic (symphonic music). The editors thought Norman Corwin's On a Note of Triumph the outstanding broadcast of 1945, voted Kenny ("Senator Claghorn") Delmar the newest radio star...
Mexican Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano had been repeatedly termed a Soviet "tool." Communist-line Lombardo had paid little heed...
...consolidated his position as No. 1 Latin American labor chieftain, President of the Confederation of Latin American Workers, the only international labor union south of the border. Last December he returned from Paris as a vice president of the newly formed World Federation of Trade Unions. But immediately Lombardo got into new trouble. He charged that reactionary Sinarquistas were smuggling arms from the U.S. into Mexico, failed to furnish proofs. The Mexican Government disavowed him (TIME...
...result of the ensuing storm, his friends decided that he had been "abused" long enough. Last week 500 left-wingers, including Diego Rivera and Dolores del Rio, who extended the hand of fellowship (see cut), gathered in big, drafty Chapultepec Restaurant in Mexico City, gave Lombardo a dreamed-up award: "Decoration of the Combatant." Citation: the Mexican "most assailed by reactionaries and imperialists...
Backwoods Lombardo. Bob Wills's music is called "folk" in the trade for want of a better name; there's a lot of fig in the folk. Wills is more a backwoods Guy Lombardo than a balladeer like Burl Ives. His trick is to bring ranch-house music nearer to the city. Says he: "Please don't anybody confuse us with none of them hillbilly outfits...