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...wanted it to, nor pay the bills he was piling up in high living. Lanza, was broke, hoarse and dispirited, but his luck was just about to click again. One day at a singing coach's studio he met a sunny little realtor named Sam Weiler, a man with plenty of money and a great yearning to be a singer. Realtor Weiler was ready to face up to the fact that he himself was no Caruso, and never would be. He listened to Lanza, then told the tenor: "I am going to have a career through you." Patron-Business...
Whispering Campaign? Lanza's paycheck for Caruso was $100,000. For his next picture he will get $150,000 (less 10% to Manager Weiler and another 10% to his agent); for the next record album, he is dickering to improve the deal that now gives him a 10% royalty on sales. But he is none too happy about the new movie script, which he rejected several times and accepted only after what he calls "a vicious whispering campaign" about his temperamental refusals. The whole thing was making him so nervous that he could not sing. To Lanza, nothing seems...
...firer's face from burns. As vice chairman, Rassweiler skipped right over Johns-Manville's presidency, which became vacant last week with the retirement of Robert W. Lea. J-M's new president: Leslie M. Cassidy, 46, formerly vice president in charge of sales. Rass-weiler's chief job will be to organize and direct a new planning board (under J-M's longtime Chief Executive Lewis H. Brown). Says Rassweiler: "We intend to let the military know what Johns-Manville can make with the tools it has, instead of waiting for them to come...
Sports director Gerry Weiler '49 will pop the questions at Henry in the first of a weekly series in which Barclay will nominate the man to be heard...
...Gerry Weiler '49, WHRV sports director, will be emcee at the radio meeting of the ballplayers, which will be followed throughout the fall by weekly appearances of University athletic stars and coaches...