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...popular singers of 1949 held their own in 1950. Last week, with returns in from their annual jazz-fan polls, both Down Beat and Metronome found that rubber-throated Billy Eckstine and sultry-voiced Sarah Vaughan again led all the rest...
...obvious reasons, General Vaughan was a leading candidate for elimination from the Social List of Washington, D.C. In last week's new edition, sure enough, the name of Harry Vaughan did not appear.* For General Vaughan, a noisily gregarious man but no socialite, this was nothing. Said he: "I didn't even know...
Besides, he had pleasanter things to think about. Out of the blue appeared the Regular Veterans Association (membership: 78,000), bearing a gold medal to add to the fruit salad splashed across the bulky Vaughan chest. The medal, said the citation, was "for meritorious services to the Armed Services and the veterans of the United States...
...Harry Vaughan never fails the veterans," explained a member of the presentation party. "Why, the other day a colored [veteran] lost his shoes in a crap game. When General Vaughan learned of this man's plight, he called in his secretary and said, 'Nora, you take this $20 and you go get this man a pair of shoes . . .' That's why we gave Harry Vaughan the Distinguished Service Medal...
...These gold medals," Vaughan confessed, "are hard to turn down. They have real hock value . . . In times of adversity a gold medal can be a man's best friend...