Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stunts like this have shot Jo Stafford, the fastest-rising girl singer in the U.S., into the big money. Her rise is typical of.singing stardom in 1946. Three years ago she was just the girl's voice in the Pied Pipers, a screechy quartet that used to sing with Tommy Dorsey. And she was fat. When she was eight, she weighed as much as Frank Sinatra does now. By the time she joined Dorsey's band she weighed...
...Sarah Vaughn, a pianist turned vocalist, who swoops up & down and around the melody in East of the Sun and Body and Soul. Some students of the subject say she is the freshest Negro talent since Ella Fitzgerald, the tisket-a-tasket girl, who is the easiest-riding rhythm singer in the business. Another promising Negress: slinky Pearl Bailey, who stops the show with Legalize My Name in Broadway's St. Louis Woman...
...Russians have tried hard to fight their own and Communism's unpopularity: to gain music-loving Vienna's favor, they ordered opera performances to be resumed last May. It was symbolic of Austrian-Russian relations that the Viennese claimed a singer in The Marriage of Figaro had been raped three times by Russian soldiers the day before the opening. To Vienna the chief villain is General Alexei Zheltov, Konev's second in command, who is believed by most observers to be more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past...
...Hollywood as the common cold. With little more than his discharge papers as a clue, Hodiak sets out to reconstruct his past. His unflagging curiosity gets him a few stiff rights to the jaw, raps on the head, unpleasant threats from sinister strangers and the love of pretty nightclub singer Nancy Guild (rhymes, her studio insists, with wild...
Family Man. Behind him is a picture of his two-year-old son, Joe Paul, named in part for Paul Robeson, the Negro singer, whom Joe greatly admires. Joe Paul's mother is the second Mrs. Curran, Retta Toble, a husky redhead and onetime stewardess on the Grace Line. Joe was divorced from the first Mrs. Curran. The current Mrs. Curran is "the best cook in the world." Joe's favorite is Spanish rice. When he is at the office he eats at the Port Cafeteria around the corner, dining on corned beef & cabbage and strawberry ice cream...