"Names make news." Last week these 'names made this news:
Onto the stage of a Manhattan theatre walked gruff, chubby George White Rogers, chief radio operator of the T. E. L. Morro Castle, to greet an apathetic audience with: "You people have made a hero out of me. . . ." For his appearances "Sparks" Rogers expected to receive $1,000 a week.
To beg the autograph of Negro Bandmaster Cab Galloway ("ho-de-ho"'), 100 white girls and their tipsy escorts crowded about the platform of Memphis' Casino Ballroom. While they pawed his trousers, grabbed at his...
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