Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wells met Wells. The British were eager to see in Main Street support for the comforting conviction that Americans, though rich, were a pretty uncouth lot. So Lewis was warmly received, but not all appreciated his japeries. When he met some prominent Irishmen, his notion of humor was to sing a funny song about Christ walking on the water. Lewis insisted on doing imitations at dinner, and they went on too long. He even fancied he resembled Bernard Shaw and bought a wig at Clarkson's", the theatrical wigmaker, to improve his Shaw impersonation (the older clown...
...ante). The gang, whose records range from gun-carrying to robbery to narcotics, was headed by Johnny Dio (born Dioguardi), a highly successful career hoodlum. Raised on the lower East Side, Dio at 20 was milking protection money from garment-district truckers, at 23 was sent to Sing Sing by Racket-Busting Tom Dewey, at 26 emerged to try new fields. Last spring District Attorney Frank Hogan charged Dio had been helping Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa in an attempt to control Manhattan teamsters...
...Rock, where he sang soprano until he was 17. Long before he graduated, in 1936, he had memorized every nuance of all the pop singers of the day. One fellow named Pha Terrell, who was featured with Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy, used to let Al sing with the band sometimes when it hit Little Rock. In 1943 Al made the Ellington band, but "I was in the band for two weeks before I knew it." He kept singing as a guest, night after night, until he finally complained that he had to earn a living...
...gaudiest spots in the biggest towns. Between dates he stays at home in Teaneck, N.J. with his wife, listening to the radio. "They tell good stories, those soap operas," he says. "Songs have good plots too, sometimes. If they do, that's when I like them. When I sing, I like to tell the plot...
...armed to embrace a shiny new world. What he grabs is Marilyn Monroe, who has stopped off on her slow progress from the Ozarks to Hollywood to earn some carfare as a "chantoosie" in a third-rate nightclub. Murray quivers to his boot heels when Marilyn slithers onstage to sing That Old Black Magic in a nasal whine, while fluttering a bilious green scarf in a deadly parody of Hildegarde's continental airs and graces...