Word: velma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Velma Middleton, a two hundred pound red hot mama, and Leslie Scott, a romantic baritone, were not particularly remarkable. A better version of "Hey Ba Ba Re Bop" than Middleton's can be heard any night at the "Showtime...
...star singer was Velma Middleton, a 250-lb. lady named-by the Gagwriters Association-Miss Petite of 1946. She waddled through Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy and then did a split which almost literally brought down the house. But when Louis, grinning wickedly, pursed his gigantic lips against his trumpet to play / Can't Give You Anything but Love or Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well, patient ears still heard the purest phrasing and most expert blowing around. There was no doubt about it-Louis ("Reverend Satchelmouth") Armstrong, after 30 years in the business, was still...
Married. Tse Kiong Sun, 29, grandson of Dr. Sun Yatsen; and Velma Lowe, 23, Mills College-educated daughter of Chain Storeman Andrew Lowe, one of California's leading Chinese merchants: in San Francisco...
...mind us, Velma, we just dropped in to sneer at your towels...