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Florida hogged the spotlight, but there were a few other lively performers onstage...
...Unilever had deliberately sought the antithesis of spotlight-hungry Chuck Luckman, Jerry Babb was indeed their man. He was not only unknown to most businessmen, he was also almost unknown in Racine. He had taken part in no civic affairs, had spent his spare time playing golf (low 80s), and bridge. Commuting to work from his suburban home, he often plays cribbage on the train...
Palm Fronds & Spotlight. Apollo patrons saw Ella for the first time 17 years ago. Billed as a dancer in the amateur show, she looked shyly down at her spindly legs, stammered out that she had changed her mind, would like to sing instead. The audience guffawed. But by the time 15-year-old Ella had slid smoothly into the second chorus of Judy they were shouting encouragement. Three encores later, she walked off the stage with the $25 first prize. No other contestant had come even close...
Plenty of Fitzgerald fans are passionately certain that no other girl singer has come even close to Ella since that night. In the basement world of jazz, where fashions can change as fast as a teenager's voice, Ella has filled the smoke-blurred spotlight for well over a "decade. She has filled it almost as long upstairs in the air-conditioned, palm-frond land of popular dance music. In 1938 she became a national hit when her record of her own song A-Tisket A-Tasket began the fad for swinging nursery rhymes. In 1946 she recorded...
Lilitenthal, whose service as AEC chairman brought him into the spotlight of Congressional investigations twice during his term, also served as director of the Tennessee Valley Authority for 12 years before...