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Singer Margaret Whiting was born with a silver tuning fork in her hand. Her father, Songwriter Richard A. Whiting (Till We Meet Again, Japanese Sandman, Sleepy Time Gal) was already a big moneymaker in the Pianola, windup phonograph and battery-radio era of popular music. Her aunt and namesake, raucous-voiced Vaudevillian Margaret Young, introduced such ragtime hits as Nobody's Sweetheart Now and Way Down Yonder in New Orleans. Sophie Tucker was little Margaret's red-hot godmamma...
...reason why the problem drama's trans-continental trip has taken 15 years is found chiefly in the moviemakers" ultra-conservative concept of public taste, as well as in their own intellectual immaturity and indifference. But now that they have fund that social evil means cash in the till, these Hollywood producers are all for exposing...
...Fall from Fortune. A few days later, on a telephoned tip, two Paris police inspectors spotted a dignified, dapper little father walking his boys (age 4 and 12) in the sunny Bois. They waited till he was sitting pina?" they alone at a asked. cafe. "C'est moi," "Monsieur answered Della-le petit gros, "I'll follow you. But please don't tell my boys what I've done." At police headquarters the inspectors found that their prisoner was a Corsican refugee from the police of Marseille, who wanted him for the murder...
Valuable Lesson. It was a revolutionary discovery. Back at NBC he put his new theories to the test on a dawn-till-breakfast show that soon built up a fanatic following among Washington's thousands of live-alone Government girls. Encouraged, Godfrey began applying the same personal approach to his commercials ("Whew!" he would say after reading some copywriter's purple prose advertising lace undies). Everybody was outraged but his listeners, and when the listeners hurried to buy, sponsors and radiomen quickly calmed down. Godfrey had learned a lesson he has never forgotten: "They don't care...
...Italian-born father started him at 19 in the family metals plant in Sāo Paulo. Not long afterwards, the father died. Taking over the business, Baby resolved to build an industrial empire. He drove himself hard from 7:30 a.m. till the Oasis opened at night. He showed an extraordinary mechanical bent. He wore old clothes, worked in the shops, ate with the men. His war-booming Laminaçāo.ao Nacional de Matais grew into the largest non-ferrous rolling mill in South America, employing 20 times as many men and doing 40 times as much business...