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...design. My current artificial leg uses electromagnetics and scanning to fit the specific contours of my stump. Prosthetics specialists are to be commended for the time, analysis and effort they put into getting each patient moving effectively - and for realizing that no two patients have exactly the same needs. Bing Grindle, Roanoke...
...design. My current artificial leg uses electromagnetics and scanning to fit the specific contours of my stump. Prosthetics specialists are to be commended for the time, analysis and effort they put into getting each patient moving effectively - and for realizing that no two patients have exactly the same needs. Bing Grindle, Roanoke, Virginia...
...Crosby and Sinatra, of course, became huge film stars as well as singers. Bing was voted the most popular actor of 1944 and 1945, and his Best Actor Oscar (for Going My Way) showed that he'd secured the admiration of his peers. Sinatra, who also had an Oscar (for From Here to Eternity) and a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award of all things, headlined A movies for three decades. These two were the model Elvis had to follow; and if he hadn't wanted to, his protective manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, would have made...
...with long, greasy hair wigglin' his ass and singin' 'Hound Dog'." Elvis was the first pop singer who had to be seen, not just heard, to be appreciated (or condemned). What was ignored at the time was his connection to the two crucial vocalists who had preceded him: Bing Crosby in the 1920s and 30s, Frank Sinatra...
...Bing's name doesn't get 37,300,000 links on Yahoo. Frank's fans don't gather by the thousands at his home on the anniversary of his death to hold a candlelight vigil. They were just great singers and movie stars. Elvis alone rules the kingdom, with the power of his myth, and the glory of a billion dollars in endlessly renewable merchandise...