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...Guarded mixes vaporish mysticism with barrack-room horseplay and talk that lacks the old punch. Over it all lies the war-at-a-distance wistfulness of a man who once lived war at first hand. Meant for a martial chant, it is more like a nostalgic ballad, too often sung rustily...
...dotted line, they had their recording turntables spinning. The first big-company recording since 1942 was Vaughn Monroe's The Trolley Song, on 160,000 Victor discs. Columbia followed with Harry James's The Love I Long For and 500,000 copies of White Christmas, sung by Frank Sinatra. On the classical front, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz got there first with recordings of the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Columbia); runner-up was Pianist José Iturbi's recording of Morton Gould's Boogie Woogie Etude (Victor...
...career started in Montclair, NJ. where Dorothy, fired with theatrical ambitions, began dancing and singing lessons when she was scarcely out of grade school. A brother played the trumpet and two sisters were pianists. A great aunt, Catherine Hayes, had sung opera in London, Rome and Vienna. Her grandfather, James J. Beggs, had toured the world as conductor of Buffalo Bill's band, and had been one of the founders of New York's Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Dorothy's two sisters gave up their careers for marriage, and her trumpeter brother ended...
...shimmering, moody Chinese Sung Dynasty landscape painted on silk, called A Fisherman's Abode after the Rain...
...Tito was fighting the Germans. Yugoslavs from all classes and political parties joined him, including, last week, a son of Mihailovich. Young, strong women like Stana Tomashevich marched and fought like men. Their favorite weapon was the German Schmeisser machine pistol. Their favorite song was a haunting old air sung to these words...