Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MAUDE SINGER New Rochelle...
None of this prevented Los Angeles' hundreds of publicity-minded folk from gleefully using the smog for their own purposes. Singer Jo Stafford arrived in town carrying two caged canaries, cracked: "It's an old miner's trick; if the canaries die I go back to New York...
Last week, gleaming with fuchsia and olive-green paint, station KOTV held its grand opening. Swarms of prominent Tulsans were disappointed when the Hollywood stars who had been announced failed to show up. But beauty was well represented by Tulsa-born Singer Patti Page, who arrived in a Cadillac, mink and diamonds; and by Helen Maria Alvarez herself who, though too busy to buy a new costume, looked more than satisfactory in a three-year-old lace dress...
Although one of his biggest-selling records was made with a band (Wee Baby Blues with Blues Singer Joe Turner), Tatum's fame has come from his solo work. "A band hampers me. I hafta watch out for them." His solo records of standard tunes (Tea for Two, Sweet Lorraine), his jazz renditions of popular classics (Massenet's Elegy, Dvorak's Humoesque), and his showcase novelties (Get Happy, 9:20 Special) are part of most jazz collections...
...going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue playboy casts a hungry eye toward a torch singer's double exposure-on television...