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Last week this old Tennessee ballad, Cindy, was worn thin on the turntables of 1,000 radio disc jockeys. Listeners wrote new Cindy lyrics and sent them to the radio stations. First prize in the contest was a trip to Manhattan to meet Songbird Jo Stafford...
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...
When the Laborite president of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, outlined the new Government's program for industry last fall, he promised not only Government ownership of the key industries but "a system of planned and controlled private enterprise for the rest." To deal with "the rest" he set up three-sided "working parties"-representing labor, management, and the public interest...
William H. Stafford...
...Britons whose statesmanship had produced the plan for India-Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps, A. V. Alexander, Lord Wavell-were determined to push through a solution. Their able spokesman, aging Pethick-Lawrence (74), told correspondents: "What will happen if one person ... or groups of people in some way tried to put spanners [monkey wrenches] in the wheels, I am not prepared at this stage precisely to say; but the intention is to get on with...