Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest surprise: Billy ("Mr. B.") Eckstine (TIME, June 20) was voted "greatest popular male singer of all time," just a iump ahead of Bing Crosby...
...fast political maneuver. Ohio ballots now list candidates under the party label so that voters can vote a straight ticket by making one cross at the top of the ballot. Taft people saw the hazard in this for their candidate. The Democratic ticket would be headed by popular, thin-skinned and independent Frank John Lausche, who probably would be running for re-election as governor. Lausche's name was enough to pull thousands of straight party votes so that any Tom, Dick or Joe, running as a Democratic candidate for the Senate, might slip...
...nights when the Metropolitan Opera's Ferruccio Tagliavini sang Tosca and Lucia di Lammermoor, there were few empty seats; fans gladly paid double prices to hear once-barred (for alleged collaboration) Tenor Beniamino Gigli sing the operatic twins "Cav" and "Pag" (Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci) with popular Soprano Maria Caniglia and Baritone Tito Gobbi. Even 60-year-old Tenor Tito Schipa was on hand...
...ponderous new style of acting like a mutinous galley slave. The other principals behave in harrowing situations like mechanical toys that need winding. A new actor, Jeff Chandler, registers a slow magnetic power similar to Gregory Peck's, and is apt to become at least half as popular. Stephen McNally, oddly the only one in the movie who tries for a Jewish accent, misses it spectacularly...
When the smuggling story broke in Mexico City, Beteta was unexpectedly faced with the possibility of a financial panic, touched off by a run on the Banco de Comercio. Said the pro-Communist El Popular: "Every patriotic depositor should withdraw all funds at once." Beteta' asked editors and financial writers to go easy on the bank...