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Word: singerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peggy, who is still shy of 21, started trouping early. As a toddling three-year-old-spurred by her engineer-father, once a Chicago singer-she danced and sang in Texas mining towns. At six, she hit the road for a West Coast vaudeville circuit. She was only eleven when she crashed radio in San Antonio. There she organized neighborhood kids into the Little Texans Theater of the Air over WOAI. Peggy wrote and managed the program, used her vocal talents for little boy roles and sound effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vocal Varieties | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

Born. To Virginia ("Ginny") Simms, 28, radio and screen singer; and Hyatt Robert Dehn, 35, building contractor: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: David Martin Dehn. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...Bess fame in Carmen and I Pagliacci (TIME, Oct. 8). and followed it this year with Negro Soprano Camilla Williams as Madame Butterfly. Says 32-year-old Ellabelle Davis: "I want to prove that a Negro artist doesn't have to stay in his own backyard. In a singer, it is the color of the voice and not of the face which matters. If I'm a success in Aïda I will carry the fight to the doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Celeste Aida | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Joan Edwards, radio's Hit Parade singer, gave her husband a headache when she told the American Magazine's readers that her weekly earnings (reportedly $3,000) were three times his. His first wife promptly sued to have her $40-a-week alimony boosted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind musical satirist with tiptoe-singer Evelyn Knight as his guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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