Word: whiteman
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Embroidery at the Ritz. Jenkin stayed, and he also sold his much-embroidered orchestrations to such other big-name outfits as Whiteman, Goodman, Lopez and Kostelanetz. He also managed to do some composing of his own, turned up a wartime hit San Fernando Valley. Hi biggest single venture to date ("comparing it to all the other things is like stacking a symphony alongside a pack of pop tunes") is Manhattan Tower, a frequently maudlin, occasionally sprightly four-section tribute to the big city, which he wrote in 1945 after a three-week champagne party in a suite of Manhattan...
Other minor mishaps over Derby Day also seemed to center around Vanderbilt. Not only did another luckless in male topple down three fights of stairs Friday night, but a minor riot, involving a bonfire on Old Campus, caused Harold B. Whiteman, Assistant Dean of Freshmen, to put the whole dormitory on probation...
...Paul Whiteman Show (Sun. 7 p.m., ABC-TV). Guest: Soprano Mimi Benzell...