Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the deep-chested young singer from County Limerick had finished his arias and folk songs, the room clattered with applause. Even hearty old Tenor (and Papal Count) John McCormack said of 23-year-old Singer Christopher ("Christy") Lynch: "He is the one most likely to succeed me. ... A very beautiful voice ... I have not heard better in a quarter of a century...
Married. James ("Jimmy") Dunn, 43, now taking a second hitch at cinema stardom in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and Edna Rush, 37, radio singer (Philadelphia's "Miss Television" of 1931); he for the third time, she for the second; in Philadelphia. Bridal attendant: A Tree's Author Betty Smith...
Died. Julius Keller, 81, New York restaurateur (Maxim's) famed as "the father of cafe society," credited with introducing the gigolo into U.S. night life (an early employe: Rudolph Valentino); in Southampton, L.I. He once recalled firing Singer Rosa Ponselle from Maxim's, later meeting her when she was a Metropolitan prima donna and asking innocently : "Where are you working now, Rosa...
Before he enlisted in 1943, black-haired, velvet-eyed Johnny sang with Bob Crosby and Gene Krupa. Then he signed up as a drummer-the Army does not admit "singer" as a musical classification-with Glenn Miller's Air Forces Band. (Major Miller has been missing since a December England-to-Paris flight, but the band continues to bear his name.) Desmond's G.I. job, which he is apparently doing sensationally well, is singing. His I'll Be Seeing You and Long Ago and Far Away, in phonetic French, makes young Parisians jump up & down, squeal "Bravo...
...build up its mail-order business in the adobe villages of the plains and the distant mountain and jungle towns, Sears salesmen will probably follow the trail blazed by sellers of the Singer Sewing Machine Co. (N.J.). In many of the remote huts of farmers who still labor with oxen and wooden plows are ancient Singers now passed from mother to daughter as a family heirloom. With such people as these Sears men will leave their revered catalogue, an artifact they hope will come to mean as much in Mexico as it does in the rural...