Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport, on his way home, he was amazed to see a mooing chorus of bobby-soxers led by cheer leaders. But as Dulles climbed out of an embassy limousine, an aide explained that the youngsters had not turned out to see him off at all. They were waiting for Crooner Frankie Laine, expected on the next Paris plane. "I thought they were there to greet me," chuckled Dulles. "What a disappointment. See what fame means...
...music dealers this week are featuring a box with an emerald green cover, a faceless figure seated before a Decca microphone, and the word Bing. Spread over the five LPs in the package (price: $27.50) are 89 Crosby renditions with spoken interludes by the crooner himself. Most of the songs are original versions selected from the 2,000-odd sides he recorded in two decades...
...entertainment world's most refreshing romance blew fair and warm as Cinemactress Debbie (Susan Slept Here) Reynolds, 22, floated off a plane from Hollywood at New York's International Airport and into the open arms and bashful buss of Crooner Eddie (I Need You Now) Fisher, 26. The combination of wholesome young love and two stirring success stories was a nation's delight. Daughter of a railroad carpenter, Debbie got into movies in 1948 when a talent scout spotted her wearing a holey bathing suit in a Burbank (Calif.) beauty contest (her family couldn't afford...
Suddenly (United Artists). Frank Sinatra, who ably made the switch from crooner to yardbird last year in From Here to Eternity, now proves there is plenty of ham on the famous skinnybones...
Still without a divorce from Crooner Frank Sinatra, Cinemactress Ava Gardner left Nevada, where she had waited out her six-week legal residency stint, and rushed to Havana's Hotel Nacional, where she and Frankie had honeymooned so long ago. This time she registered as Miss Anne Clarke and maid, later went fishing with her old friend, Author Ernest Hemingway, hooked a twelve-pounder, while Papa caught nothing...