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Died. Sol Bloom, 78, longtime chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (except for the Republican 80th Congress), Democratic Representative from New York's 20th (Manhattan) District since 1923; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. Son of Polish immigrants, onetime song-plugger and showman (he was earning $25,000 a year when he was 18, introduced the hootchy-kootchy at the Chicago World's Fair), admirer of George Washington (he organized the 1932 bicentennial), he entered Tammany politics after successfully retiring from the real-estate business at the age of 50. Internationalist and ardent New Dealer, pince...
...Congress made minor amends for the major court-martial of the late General William ("Billy") Mitchell. Twenty-two years after the pioneer plugger of air power resigned from the Army, a special posthumous medal was presented to son William...
Isaac had a manager willing to wait. He told Isaac: "Plug, play and practice; I'll talk about you." The first year he got seven concerts, the second 14. Then he was signed by Master Plugger Sol Hurok...
Himber took one look at her plain little face and groaned. But she got the job, sang on Himber's Studebaker Champions program for 13 weeks. Then a song plugger told her about a big audition at NBC. Like the songstress in Frederic Wakeman's The Hucksters, she was cautioned to sing "loud and fast. . . and on the beat." About 150 other girls were trying out, too ("An acre of mink and silver fox, honey, and me in a little old suit"). But Lucky Strike's late George Washington Hill liked Fredda's hep style...
HENRY GOETHALS, who seldom handles the ball, except in the T formation, is an iron man who played 60-minute roles against Rutgers and Holy Cross. As a backer-up, he has been an efficient hole-plugger all season...