Word: columbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That sum might soon be sundae-money to Vic Damone. Like Crooners Sinatra, Perry Como and the late Russ Columbo, Vic is of Italian descent-and he managed to be born & bred in Brooklyn. He has shrewd management and the shyest little catty-cornered grin that ever melted the lipstick off a teenager. He also has a full, lyrical baritone, trimmed with a sense of phrase that Sinatra might envy if it were not so much like his own. Says Vic: "I try to tell a story. I never sing a song the same way twice...
Like Frankie, Jean latches on to a microphone as if it had gender. There the resemblance ends. Jean is middling tall, broad-shouldered, has a mechanical grin and a thick shrub of mustache, through which he filters a vibrant baritone like the late Russ Columbo...
...latest listener-polls, as they have for years, put Crosby among the dozen most popular attractions in radio. The entertainment trade-sheet, Variety, considered him front page news. He had been a top-rank songster since the season of 1930-31, when a current pop tune was Crosby, Columbo and Vallee. Other singers have come and gone. Last week Crosby, 41, had never even been away...
...week, for example, he discussed the teaching of American history, John Hancock, nationalism, the value of keeping a diary, Ethan Allen, U.S. foreign policy, the liberation of France, colored book bindings, Jay Gould, feuding in Washington agencies, soap operas, the absence of advertising in French newspapers, George Washington, Russ Columbo's mother, pronunciations, Nazi fanatics, the League of Nations, the 1920s and the "We Won the War" legend...
Died. Mrs. Julia Columbo, 78, mother of the late famed Bing Crosby-style crooner, Russ Columbo; in Los Angeles. When Russ Columbo was killed in 1934 by the accidental discharge of an antique dueling pistol, his mother was too ill with heart trouble to be told of his death, soon after began losing her eyesight. For ten years the family kept Russ's death secret from her, explained he was having great success in England, read her affectionate weekly letters signed "Russ," inclosing the monthly $398 insurance annuity he had taken out in her favor...