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...haired pianist from Milwaukee to their hearts and turning him into a sensational show-business success. He has sold more records (400,000 albums) than Eddie Fisher, has the most widely admired dimples since Shirley Temple, and displays the most relentless lovableness since Little Lord Fauntleroy. His name is Wladziu Valentino Liberace (he only uses the last name), but he has also been professionally known as Buster Keys...
Liberace (pronounced Liber-ah-chee) is a piano player who dropped his given names because "Paderewski did not achieve worldwide fame until after he dropped his."* The trick took: at 33, Milwaukee-born Wladziu Valentino Liberace cannot give enough concerts to please all his fans, many of whom probably never heard of Paderewski. He has sold a phenomenal 250,000 albums of his records, appears on 100 TV stations (more than I Love Lucy), and by the testimony of his sponsors (mostly banks and biscuit companies) has directly accounted for "several million dollars worth of business...