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Halfway through his six-week tour of Russia, Bandleader Benny Goodman blew into Leningrad last week and delivered his message-piping hot and groovy. The Leningrad crowd that surged forward to greet him at the opening concert shouting "Davai Benny"was by all odds the jazz-happiest crew the band had yet encountered. The only letdown came at what should have been a high point in the tour-the collaboration of Goodman and Pianist Byron Janis in a performance of Rhapsody in Blue...
...office holds up even without the Picasso magic. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts reported recently that its six-week exhibit of a touring Van Gogh show drew 122,000 people. 83,000 of whom, being adults and nonmembers, paid $1 at the door...
...Byron Nelson in 1945, when many pros were away in service. No one has ever won so much money so early; when Palmer set the one-year record ($75,263) in 1960, he had picked up only $48,000 by the middle of May. In one furious, six-week stretch that culminated with his play-off victory over Johnny Pott last week in the Colonial National Invitational, Palmer won four tournaments. Said Pott: "He's just too tough...
Peace & Welfare. Sinatra says he felt the first stirrings of philanthropy four years ago, decided on charity concert tours to raise money for orphanages. "As an overprivileged adult, I'd like to help underprivileged children," he announced. Last week he was midway on a six-week tour that will swing through seven nations. First stop was Japan, where his three concerts drew members of the imperial family, U.S. Ambassador Reischauer, and scrambling crowds. Proceeds of his week's work were $28,000, which he gave to Tokyo, asking that it be used to help 60 orphanages for Eurasian...
Even little Studebaker-Packard is doing better. Its Larks apparently have benefited by borrowing some styling ideas from Germany's Mercedes-Benz, which S.P. markets in the U.S. Despite a six-week strike earlier this year, Studebaker has boosted its market share from 1.3% to 1.9% in early March. To demonstrate his confidence that S.P. is here to stay, new President Sherwood Egbert last week announced the purchase of a new company, Paxton Products. It manufactures superchargers...