Four Ink Spots Rise From Backstage To Vaudeville Top Billing
The Ink Spots, once porters at the Paramount, now headline at the same venue earning $3,000 a week. They toured England with Jack Hilton, impressed the Prince of Wales, and later found radio money and records driving their success. Deck Watson recalls their switch from porter jobs to singing, leading to a $10,000 royalty when the juke boxes sang their hit.
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New York
Paramount Theater
Deek
Goldmouth) Watson
Bing Crosby
Deck
England
England “We Got To Payin’ More Attention To Singin’ Than Porterin
Moe Gail
Harlem
Waldorf-Astoria
Jack Hilton
Hilton
Prince of Wales
Prince
Mr. Hilton
Billy Kenny
the Tall One
Charlie
Solid Charles
Fuqua
Billy
Community notices and gatherings mark Stephens City week
Stephens City Virginia hosts a Northern Virginia Power Company cake making demonstration led by Miss Margaret Flickinger with a long list of attendees. A final demo is planned for October 30. Homecomings, visits, and thanks for firefighters accompany social events and hospital news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephens City
Northern Virginia Power Company
Margaret Flickinger
James Gordon
Harry Lovett
Mildred Lee Grove
Edwin Jones
Charles Bass
Virginia Brumback
Dorothy Petrie
Carolyn Seal
Leslie Orndorff
P. B. Stickley
Heath
Virginia
Cleve Adams
Joe Clevenger
Joe Maloney
Imogen
Julian Gregory
Pauline Rhodes
Mollie Adams
Homer Welsh
Charley Beatty
Max Borden
Patsy
Max, Jr
Baltimore
Beatty
Carmel Golliday
Maxine
Materal
York
Leslie Golliday
June Lemley
Madison College
John Hoover
Winchester
Eldridge Lemley
Lemley
Jane Polhamus
Brunsck
Billy Lemley
Ted Lemley
Pamelia
Falls Church
Angie Montgomery
Clyde Wise
Marcus Hook
Robert Sargent
Samuel
Camp Pendleton
Irene Booth
Memorial Hospital
John Hartley
Ellie Rose
Hagerstown
Este
Norfolk Grows So None Knows How Big It Is
Norfolk swells with defense job growth as shipyards bases and camps surge. Population and payroll rise beyond census figures while housing lags and trailer living expands. Military and civilian workers flood Hampton Roads fueling a booming, crowded city in wartime.
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Norfolk
Don Whitehead
Norfolke
The
Special News Service
Hampton Roads
Bismarck
Navy
Elizabeth River
Portsmouth
Newport News
Naval Operating
Fort Story
Fort Monroe
Camp Pendleton
Langley Field
United States
Britain
National Defense
County Brevities from Boyce Virginia Update
Local notes from Boyce Virginia recount visits by families and friends from Winchester Norfolk Hagerstown and Newport News. Mentions recoveries and upcoming army training departures with Donald Hawkins slated to leave November to begin service.
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Tubyries Farm
Joan Esten Cooke
J. W. Eddy
Boyce
Robert Peyton
Winchester
C. R. Creamer
Randoph Frazier
Newport News
Harris Shepherd
Georgia
University Farm
Donald Hawkins
Preaching Planned At Galilee Grimes Church
Grimes Virginia reports that preaching will be held at Galilee next Sunday night. Local residents share visits and family connections with relatives from Augusta West Virginia to Martinsburg and Brucetown. Weather turns colder with wild geese seen migrating and rain badly needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertie Hubbard
Albert Grubbs
Martinsburg
Olin Affleck
Winchester
Leslie Hensell
C. W. Hensel
Homer Pugh
Augusta
W. Va
A.S. Orndorff
Mechanized armies must cover 40 miles per hour
The text notes a shift from past standards where marching 20 miles in a day was an achievement to a modern expectation that mechanized forces may need to move twice that distance in an hour. It contrasts foot mobility with rapid mechanized movement.
Miss Jacquelyn McWin to Join Beauty Court at Peanut Exposition
In Waynesboro on Oct 29 Miss Jacquelyn McWin daughter of Mr and Mrs Alfred McWin of Fourth street will attend Suffolk as a member of the Beauty court at the National Peanut Exposition. She is Miss Virginia of 1941 and former queen of the Rockingham Turkey Festival.
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Waynesboro
Jacquelyn McWin
Alfred McWin
Fourth Street
Virginia
Atlantic City
Rockingham
Suffolk
Judges Assigned For Lynchburg And King William Courts
Justice Herbert B. Gregory named three judges to preside in the Lynchburg Corporation Court during part of the November term replacing the ill Judge Aubrey E. Strode. Edward Meeks Charles E. Burks and A D Dabney listed. Justice C Vernon Spratley designated Frank Armistead to preside in King William circuit starting Oct 30 for the Hyla E Robinson versus Georgie J Harris case replacing disqualified Judge J Douglas Mitchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Herbert B. Gregory
Lynchburg Corporation Court
Aubrey E. Strode
Edward Meeks
Twenty-Ninth Judicial Circuit
Charles E. Burks
Lynchburg Circuit Court
A. D Dabney
Charlottesville Corporation Court
C. Vernon Spratley
Frank
King William
Hyla E. Robinson
Georgie J. Harris
Jurge J. Douglas Mitchell
Milk Spree at Syracuse Campus Attracts Quiet Approval
On the Syracuse campus two students Robert Averill a sophomore and Robert Demarest a freshman install milk dispensing machines. They aim to boost campus milk consumption with plain and chocolate drinks. The university gave no disapproval. The note also mentions the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra as the oldest in the United States and third oldest in the world.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Robert Averill
Robert Demarest
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
United States
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Kenneth McLean
Kenneth, Jr
Fitchburg
Mass
Chest
Vicks
Pasmene
Weston
Fuoret
J. Paul Samsell
Mae Benner
Harrisonburg
Will Herell
Jess Smith
Edgar Worrest
Lancaster, Pa
Cora
George W. Kurtz
W. Grove Furniture Coo
J. W. Grove Furniture CO
H. L. Kelley, Jr
Manley H. Simons
Kelley
Ranger
Pensacola
Kelly
Preminum
Naval Base
Felix X. Gygax
Norfolk Navy Yard
Antoinette
London
Gen. DeGaulle
Antoinette X
France
North Africa
Boyce, Va
Clay Carr
Long Carr
John Nelson Jr
C. B. Carr and Sons
Jackie and
Houston Hume Carr
Grimes
Adrienne Ames
Lynchburg
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Entertainment
Mittee
Legion
Cikesterfields
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