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...season, 60 the next. McGovern opened a second gym, largest of its kind in the world, specialized in "pushing the big shots out of bed," got $200 a month per customer for an hour's exercise a day (chiefly in a reclining position). Jack Dempsey, Gene Sarazen, Paul Whiteman, John J. Raskob were among his customers. Least cooperative, he once recalled, was a Tammanyite who for a year paid $300 a month for home treatments, had a hangover every time McGovern came to the house, never...
Chances are you've never heard of "Mississippi Mud." By way of explanation, Paul Whiteman's version of it was the rage of the late twenties, for Bix Beiderbecke's cornet solo and the Rhythm Boys' singing. Beyond a doubt Dinah took her cue from the record, but no one who has heard it will be surprised to know that she loused up the song good and plenty. In spite of all her speeches about how she learned to sing by listening to the Negroes back home, da-own Sa-outh, Dinah's singing has very little of the true...
Died. Bernard ("Bunny") Berigan, 33, veteran trumpet virtuoso, topnotch tooter of the jazz and swing eras; of an intestinal ailment aggravated by trumpeting; in Manhattan. He began as a boy musician, appeared with name bands when he was 18, soloed with Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, organized his own band...
Last December, the Ohio State chapter of Phi Delta Kappa rebelled when it took the colloquial interpretation of the "whiteman" clause in the constitution, and inducted as members a Chinese and a Negro. Forthwith the chapter was notified that it would be banned from the society next May unless it rescinded the membership of these two men, which Ohio State has refused...
...Souvenir Program (Paul Whiteman Orchestra; Victor Album). Ten sides (four previously unissued), with solos by the late great Trumpeter "Bix" Beiderbecke and vocals by Bing Crosby, made in 1928 when the Whiteman band was at its peak...