Word: swingsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martha Stevenson Kemp Mature, blond ex-wife of Swingster Hal Kemp and Victor ("Beautiful Hunk") Mature, arrived in Manhattan from Palm Beach with a bump on her head. According to the New York Journal-American's society page, she had been jarred awake in her sleeping car, sat upright, "rapped her lovely sconce" on the upper berth...
Henry Ford bought off for an undisclosed sum Swingster Tommy Dorsey's $130,000 contract for a 13-week Ford radio appearance. The aged patron of country fiddlers was reported to have objected to the way modern dance bands go to town...
Frank Sinatra bought himself back from Swingster Tommy Dorsey, who had owned a third of him for nearly a year. When the singer quit Dorsey's band last October, he bought off his contract by signing over a third of his earnings-to-come for the next ten years. For full title to himself, the crooner last week paid more than...
Born. To Naval Chief Petty Officer Artie Shaw, 33, peacetime swingster, and Betty Kern Shaw, 24, daughter of Composer Jerome Kern : their first child, a boy, after 16 months of marriage; in Hollywood. Weight...
...Born. To Swingster Benny Goodman, 33, and Alice Hammond Duckworth Goodman, 37: their first child, Rachel; in Los Angeles. Weight...