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Freddy Martin does not jazz up the classics; he waters them down, so that they are simple enough for his own treacly tenor sax, and the fiddles in his 19-piece band. This diluted sugar has helped draw 1,000,000 dancers to the famed Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in the five years he has played there. He would like to record Debussy's Clair de Lune, but it will be over the copyright owners' dead bodies. Says he: "You've got to give the public something it can hang onto-some real...
With all that interest, the Indoor gym's 1600 seating limit, imposed by the after-effects of the Cocoanut Grove fire, would be small potatoes. The Arena holds...
...first big job at 16, as the tenor of a trio which followed Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys into Hollywood's Cocoanut Grove in 1931. (Like Bing, he has never learned to read notes, but knows harmony from his trio days.) Tough times followed until he clicked with a one-song shot on Kate Smith's program. Since then, Tenor Smith has sometimes appeared in as many as 19 programs in one week. Among them were several variety shows for P & G, who reckoned that he would go over with housewives who tuned out the bobby...
...plunged at the "curtain of steam and boiling water," across the only exit, twice collided with an electric fan before he got out. When he reached a hospital ship an hour and a half later, he was probably the most severely burned man on medical record. Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire had scorched 55% of Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson's body, and his survival was considered a medical miracle. The young fireman was burned on 75 to 80% of his body, and lived...
Bushnell saw a superb chance to settle old accounts with Boston's Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty. Policeman Timilty's popularity had survived ugly rumors of police corruption, of criminal incompetence in connection with last year's Cocoanut Grove fire (492 burned to death...