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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years ago with Lyricist Fred Wise (Misirlou) and Tunesmith Sidney Lippman (Chickery Chick). They had never been able to sell it. Growled publishers: "Sounds like an old-fashioned tap routine," or "Who wants to sing the alphabet?" His collaborators almost lost hope, but Buddy kept plugging. He persuaded M-G-M Records to record it just before the Petrillo ban; when M-G-M finally released it last December, Buddy spent $1,000 carting the record around to half a dozen cities, badgering disc jockeys, record shops and department stores. Finally, when Crooner Perry Como sang...
Kingsley finished The Patriots, 1943's Drama Critics Circle award winner, during his four years in the Army (private to lieutenant), but he was broke when he got out. He fixed that by working on a couple of scripts for M-G-M (Homecoming and Cass Timberlane), then plunged into Detective Story...
...mother, who died recently. His friends supposed that here, finally, was a subject that would need no research. But Kingsley is running true to form: "My mother was a very proud and mysterious person. There's a lot I don't know about her. I'm going to have to do a little detective work...
...Pancho's game is built on power and a big serve. Otherwise, nobody is sure until the match begins just what his game will be like. Says Pancho himself: "Sometimes my forehand is my weakness, sometimes my backhand. It all depends on how I'm feeling that...
...have altered my Will ... I shall probably write another one. It is good fun having a lot of money to throw about, the only fun . . . The only moments of happiness I have ever known have been in dream and it was horrible to wake . . . I tell you I'm going to die any day now ... I am tired. It is time I went ... I must go on living because the Life Force is in desperate need of an organ of intelligent consciousness ... Do you think the young are interested in my work? ... I want to be remembered like Mozart...