Word: canonsburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family Man. Perry, 47, has never wavered from the family feeling that he got back in Canonsburg, Pa., where he was born "lucky," the seventh son of a seventh son. His father was an Italian immigrant mill hand with 13 kids. Perry began early as a barber, at 14 had his own shop, and never intended to leave Canonsburg. Even after crooning for Ted Weems during the 1930s, Perry went home in 1942 intending to open another shop. But booking agents never stopped phoning, and soon he was at Manhattan's Copacabana...
...million records (eleven have topped the 1,000,000 mark), Perry the pro is mainly a solid family man. He lives unostentatiously at Sands Point, L.I., has few cronies and owns but two cars, a Cadillac and a Thunderbird. His wife Roselle, whom he married 25 years ago in Canonsburg, does the cooking; he sometimes dries the dishes. His interests are golf (high 70s) and his three children. Chief entertainment: watching TV while sprawled on a couch in his den, and writing congratulatory telegrams to TV comedians...
...WALTER J. BOETTCHER Canonsburg...
...Real Nice." Perry was a barber some 20 years ago, back in Canonsburg...
...Canonsburg...