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Perry Como's Till the End of Time (a Tin Pan Alley rewrite of Chopin) was the biggest-selling single record of 1945 (more than 1,000,000 discs). Como versions of another Chopin tune, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, and Dig You Later ("A Hubba, Hubba, Hubba") which has sold over a million records, are on the current jukebox best-selling lists. Como sings them straighter than slow-drag Sinatra, but with somewhat less ease than The Groaner, Crosby. Says Como: "I can't explain the different techniques in Crosby, Sinatra and me, unless...
...weeks, Mary and her husband shook tin cans with coin slits at passers-by until they had acquired $3,000. Gradually Mary and her neighbors got neighborly. In her first year she held parties in her front parlor, taught cooking classes in tenements, organized a penny bank, a children's reading room. In between she mopped floors...
...Hats, Tin Horns...
...think we have given about enough publicity to "red hats" and "tin horns" of Roman Catholicism? They have rights, but should these rights be disproportionate? Is there not any room for at least a few favorable reports of significant developments in the Protestant Church. . . ? Publicity is given to one, [Senator] Bob Wagner, who has accepted baptism from the hand of a Roman Catholic priest [TIME, Feb. 11], Why not be fair next week and publish an account of the conversion of one of several Roman Catholic priests who have entered the Protestant Church in America? . . . (REV.) DONALD MACLEOD Princeton...
...while "waiting for the Novocain to work." Several of Old Grad Boland's songs have sold well (The Gypsy in My Soul and I Live the Life I Love in 1937; Stop Beatin' 'Round the Mulberry Bush in 1939). He is considering several offers to turn Tin Pan Alley pro, but dentistry pays him too well. "Someone else will have to make up my mind," says Dr. Boland. "It's a hell of a spot...