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...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...
Tough-minded Walter Hershel Beech, 48, looks like an oversized Bing Crosby. He never got through the seventh grade but has an amazing knack for machinery and aerodynamics. After five years in the Army Air Corps (1917-21), he joined Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna (both of whom later formed their own companies), started Wichita's Travel Air Co. to make small planes. Travel Air boomed with the air craze of the Twenties...
Scarcely breaking stride, Bing Crosby loped off with a blue ribbon for meeting the Treasury emergency in song. With Connie Boswell, on his Kraft Music Hall hour Thursday night (NBC Red, 9 to 10), he plugged the pleasantest of 1941's patriotic ditties, Irving Berlin's Any Bonds Today? (copyrighted by Henry Morgenthau Jr.), with a brand-new verse...
Clementine (Bing Crosby; Decca). Part straight, part swing, with gags...
...they interspersed glimpses of the Boston telephone directory to sustain the plot interest. Every ditty that horse-and-buggy gramophones ground out is here, from "Tiger Rag" to "After the Ball" and "My Melancholy Baby." With a couple of the screen's best song-pluggers, Mary Martin and Bing Crosby, to do the honors, these old--but not outworn--Hit Paraders pack all the punch, plus a good deal more nostalgia, than they had in their prime...