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...year-old-Christy Lynch is the new U.S. music season's most trumpeted visitor. After a cocktail party and supper in his honor at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, last week, the young Irishman said: "Sure and I haven't done so bad." For his first radio appearance, the sponsoring Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. filled Carnegie Hall with bigwigs of business and music. Lynch sang such McCormack stock in trade as Macushla, Neapolitan Love Song and Che Gelida Manina from Puccini's La Bohème -and his voice sounded very nearly as clean and sweet, his Irish...
Petrillo's A.F.L. musicians, turned down after asking 25% more pay, had walked off the bandstands of over 50 New York hotels (including the Waldorf-Astoria, St. Moritz, Savoy-Plaza). Cried Pegler: ''I hope the hotels and the musicians' union never come permanently to terms...
...following season Cugat took his polite rhumbas to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and later broke attendance records. Cugat credits much of his success to his female vocalists. He selects them "80% on looks and 20% on what goes into the ears. A man can't understand what my girl sings, but if he likes to look at her then I'm all right." Floorshow dancers are also handpicked. One of them, Cugat's niece, became Broadway Actress Margo; another became Hollywood's Rita Hayworth...
...before the 1941 Sunday when he heard a broadcast of Toscanini and Vladimir Horowitz, playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat. B.C. includes Freddy's boyhood, thumping a drum and selling musical instruments. For ten years Freddy Martin's band played prestige jobs like the Waldorf-Astoria, but never made much money at it. His recording of Tchaikovsky's Concerto put him into the big time, in the movies and on the air, and shot his income up to about $100,000 a year. (He now owns two song-publishing firms and three horses...
...guinea pig was a volunteer-Fred Learned, onetime farm editor, now an employe of the American Cancer Society. Two days before the big banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria he had taken a dose of radioactive iodine; now handsome, scholarly Dr. Robley D. Evans, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would demonstrate how the substance, a product of atomic research, could combat cancer of the thyroid...