Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Kopp's men will be anxious to prevent a repeat of the first performance when both teams hog-tied their opponents defensively. A fast break may perhaps be unveiled tonight by the Crimson in an effort to upset the shore patrollmen's tight formations...
...Chicago radio tower received an urgent message. American Airlines pilot Frank Hamm Jr., on top of the overcast en route from Buffalo to Chicago, had failing engines, would have to land on whatever was handy when he came down out of the cloud. He came out above the shore of Lake Michigan, headed for the Michigan City (Ind.) airport only about 40 miles from Chicago's municipal field. But there was not enough altitude left to make the emergency field...
...tunes, neck-deep in sumptuous production. Van Johnson does a highly self-appreciative song& -dance-looking, unfortunately, a little as if he should be carrying a roast apple in his mouth. Judy Garland is charming as the late Marilyn Miller and still more charming when she sings Who? Dinah Shore gives special warmth to They Didn't Believe Me and The Last Time I Saw Paris. Lena Home sings Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man and Why Was I Born? with as much careful intensity as if she were expounding existentialism. Frank Sinatra does...
...started as a recording engineer. When NBC hired her in 1942, she was the first woman engineer employed by a network. Her only previous experience: recording transatlantic broadcasts for the BBC in New York. Now she records 14 top shows a week for all four networks. Among them: Dinah Shore's, Jack Haley's, Kraft Music Hall, Invitation to Music...
Metronome's prize girl singer of the year is June Christy, 21, a onetime amateur-night winner from Decatur, Ill. She got more votes than Dinah Shore or Jo Stafford. June sings with Stan Kenton's band in the same husky moan as her Kenton predecessor, Anita O'Day. Says she: "I've been hoarse ever since I can remember and Anita has too. Anita has bad breath control and so do I. It makes both of us sing a little flat...