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...Stan Kenton's) as last year. Tommy Dorsey's sweet band was no longer tops (actually he had disbanded it. but it was voted second best anyway). The new favorite: Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Among male singers, Bing Crosby lost first place to Frank Sinatra for the first time since...
...usher standing in the back of Manhattan's Paramount Theater was skinny and pimply faced and his mouth hung open. "Frank Sinatra was tearing the heart out of a ballad up there on the stage," he recalls, "and there was me, 17 years old and nobody...
Last week, ex-Usher Vic Damone was 19 years old and somebody for Sinatra to reckon with. He was "Da Moan," a suddenly well-known young singer who is being noised about as "Sinatra with quality." His first record (of I Have But One Heart and Ivy), released six weeks ago, had already sold 100,000 copies. Damone fan clubs were fizzing up like hot pop. And last week young Vic had binged into big-time radio as star of the coast-to-coast Saturday Night Serenade (10-10:30 p.m., CBS). "Geez," he said, "altogether I'm making...
...piece which lashed at "some of the guttersnipes who cover the saloon beat and never bring in any news but write free advertising about some of the dirtiest criminals out of prison." Hearst's Manhattan movie critic Lee Mortimer (who recently took a couple of punches from Frank Sinatra) assured his readers that he knew Bugsy. Bugsy's death warrant, he wrote with an air of absolute authority, was signed last winter in Havana by Procurer Charles ("Lucky") Luciano...
...first appearance in Palestine of Manhattan's brilliant young (28) Conductor Leonard Bernstein (TIME, Feb. 24), whose admirers have made him a kind of Sinatra of symphony. But he had never seen anything like this. Partly the ovation was Jewish pride in him: the audience was all Jewish-not a single British soldier, policeman or government official was there...