Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miller fans remembered Tex Beneke best as the whiny-voiced singer of Chattanooga Choo Choo and My Melancholy Baby, or as a hard-riding tenor-sax soloist. Miller helped set up other friends, e.g., Charlie Spivak and Hal Mclntyre, with bands of their own, but Tex didn't want the responsibility. Now, when bands and nightclubs were dropping like overripe apples in a high wind, Tex keeps a payroll of more than 40 busy at a weekly overhead of $9,200. He is making no fortune at it, but a new radio contract with Miller's old sponsor...
Sports are Bob Stanton's specialty, and sports thus far are television's biggest attraction. Once, back in 1932, he had a brief fling at singing in a band (his onetime lyric tenor has now become a well-modulated announcer's baritone), but singing was "too much of a grind." After he began sports announcing, he spent eight years playing second fiddle to Sportcaster Bill Stern, doing the crowd description fill-ins at big games and announcing the second-string events. In 1940 he had a chance to telecast the New York World's Fair Soap...
...Rome, the family of Tenor Beniamino Gigli (who admired the way Mussolini bossed Italy) got anonymous threats by phone and mail. Tenor Gigli, who recently testified in court against some Roman gangsters, is now singing in Switzerland. When he gets home, the threats said, he will be knocked...
Married. Nino Martini, 42, short (5 ft. 7), tall-voiced (high F) Metropolitan Opera tenor; and Nancy Maloney Tafel, 26; he for the first time, she for the second; in Stamford, Conn...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). An all-Wagner program, with Soprano Rose Bampton, Tenor Set Svanholm. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...