Music: Girlish Voice

Cindy has one blue eye; she also has one brown,

One eye looks at the country; the other one looks in town.

Last week this old Tennessee ballad, Cindy, was worn thin on the turntables of 1,000 radio disc jockeys. Listeners wrote new Cindy lyrics and sent them to the radio stations. First prize in the contest was a trip to Manhattan to meet Songbird Jo Stafford.

Stunts like this have shot Jo Stafford, the fastest-rising girl singer in the U.S., into the big money. Her rise is typical of.singing stardom in 1946. Three years ago...

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