Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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Lee Case Station WCBM Baltimore, Md. The Nation's Top Disk Jockeys pose a series of questions to see if you know your record stars. 1. They are three Utile fellows who are always getting out of line. They are saucy little fellows who have had several million record sellers. These little characters were created by David Seville. 2. She has acted and sung in many pictures, with leading men like Gene Kelly, Donald Vic Da O'Connor and mone. Her first big platter was Tammy. Her latest is Am I That Easy To Forget? 3. Every year he's voted the top popidar instrumental guitarist in the U.S. He started out on WSM's Grand Old Opry. He's RCA Victor's A & R man for Country and Western Music. 4. These f. Coffeehead'Larson Station WRIT Milwaukee. Wis. Ira Cook Station KMPC Los Angeles, Cal gers, Tony Williams, David Lynch, Paul Robi and Zola Taylor, have had many top record sellers. They met and formed their group when they were parking lot attendants in Los Angeles. Some of their big hits were: The Great Pretender, Only You and Harbor Lights. 5. This singer was bom in Texas in 1939. He still conducts his band which he formed in high school. He records for Mercury and has made a million-record-seller , Running Bear. 6. As a child she sang in her hometown choir in Newark, New Jersey. She later became a band singer with Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine and John Kirby. Her latest is You're My Baby. 7. He's been blind since the age of six because of a childhood illness. This great pianist worked with many bands at 15 and organized his first trio at 17. His latest album is called The Genius Of . iiBiliinOA hoj.vs UOiSOAJ \UU1(0[ -g suii[ty •£ rp/oiiiCjjf JiqqjQ -JJ Don Bell Station KIOA Des Moines, Iowa CeZU^ to, ■ James MacArthur is a happy young man. with a promising career as an actor, who only smiles to himself when he hears the old question — should you tell an adopted child the truth about his birth? The answer is "yes, but gently — and with love." Jimmy learned that because he himself is the adopted son of one of the world's best-known stage actresses, Helen Hayes, and the late Charles MacArthur. It was while Charles MacArthur was serving in the Army during World War II. that he decided ten-year-old Jimmy should learn he was adopted. One day he sent a letter with a special message for Jimmy: FROM: Charles MacArthur, Major, U.S.A. TO: Helen Hayes MacArthur SU BJECT : Promotion of Corporal James MacArthur. 1: It has come to the attention of the undersigned that, since James Gordon MacArthur adopted the Army as a career, his conduct has been consistent with the highest standards of military behavior and deserving of promotion. 2: Helen Hayes MacArthur, in the absence of his Commanding Officer, is hereby empowered to promote the said James MacArthur to the grade of Master Sergeant. 3: A pair of Master Sergeant's chevrons are enclosed. Charles MacArthur Major, U.S.A. Helen Hayes read the 'orders' to Jimmy and when the inevitable word adopted was read, and the inevitable questions followed ... the unmistakable love that was concealed in those Sergeant's chevrons, the love of more-than-real parents, carried the day. There wasn't a kid in upstate New York, or the whole world, for that matter, who strutted around as proudly as James MacArthur. wearing his Sergeant's stripes!