Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restrictive anti-labor legislation. But he asked for the power and means to stop any strike against the nation. The Congress, its blood pressure up too, cheered, and cheered again. (But not all joined in; among the silent: Democrats Pepper, Kilgore and J. Murray; House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin...
...life as "B.C.-before concerto," which means before the 1941 Sunday when he heard a broadcast of Toscanini and Vladimir Horowitz, playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat. B.C. includes Freddy's boyhood, thumping a drum and selling musical instruments. For ten years Freddy Martin's band played prestige jobs like the Waldorf-Astoria, but never made much money at it. His recording of Tchaikovsky's Concerto put him into the big time, in the movies and on the air, and shot his income up to about $100,000 a year. (He now owns...
...lyrics ("So it was fated, two hearts are mated . . ."*). He also recorded Grieg and Rachmaninoff piano concertos and last week did Dingbat, the Singing Cat, a dance perversion of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Says Freddy admiringly: "Tchaikovsky is the most commercial of all the classic writers." Martin believes there should be some honor among thieves of classical themes, and thinks it is good of him that he still usually mentions the original composer in titles...
...Freddy Martin does not jazz up the classics; he waters them down, so that they are simple enough for his own treacly tenor sax, and the fiddles in his 19-piece band. This diluted sugar has helped draw 1,000,000 dancers to the famed Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in the five years he has played there. He would like to record Debussy's Clair de Lune, but it will be over the copyright owners' dead bodies. Says he: "You've got to give the public something it can hang onto-some real...
Brothers Wallace and Martin Platt, Longchamps bookkeeper and office manager, not only pleaded guilty but turned Government witnesses. Wallace Platt took the stand to tell exactly how the huge job of cheating had been done. Said he: Longchamps kept two sets of books, juggled one set by understating sales and overstating purchases, used the faked figures in filing 1940-44 tax returns, siphoned the money, along with tips taken from hat-check girls, into a safety deposit...