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...Roll 'Em." The announcement stage had been set carefully. On the dance floor of the Boulevard Room in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, workmen had put together the setting of a business office. There was a mahogany desk equipped with an "in" box, a telephone and a lectern, with an American flag at one side and a plain grey curtain in the background concealing the nightclub decor. Gathered in the room, on the appointed day, were some 100 reporters and a few politicians...
...hear himself described like an overage destroyer; but to be addressed in literate and amusing English smack-dab in the middle of a Hollywood thud-and-blunder opus is a shock almost as sharp as seeing Sir Walter Scott in the old Stut 'n' Tup on Beverly Boulevard...
Blackstone Boulevard. Ohio's project was inspired largely by the phenomenal success of the prewar Pennsylvania Turnpike. Yet the state legislature voted against it in 1947, approved it in 1949 by a single Senate vote only after bitter debate...
...Before the market closed that day, the commission's $1,000 tax-exempt 3¼% bonds commanded a $25 premium. But the project was still plagued by delays, and so many obstructive lawsuits that one attorney wryly suggested paving the roadway with law! books and naming it Blackstone Boulevard. No concrete was poured at all for the first four years. Then in late 1953, an army of roadmaking machines began to roll on two ten-hour daily shifts, and the turnpike shot across Ohio at a rate sometimes exceeding one mile...
...Cinema Editor Henry Bradford Darrach Jr. was on vacation in Europe, still unaware that his first job upon returning would be to write the Sinatra story. Meanwhile, Correspondent Ezra Goodman scoured Hollywood, pursuing Sinatra himself. The West Coast chase led Goodman from Sinatra's luxurious duplex on Wilshire Boulevard through recording studios and an Italian restaurant to the singer-actor's sumptuous dressing room...