Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very good," he says in his professional goulash-English. So last Christmas he announced that he would make his first public appearance as a crooner on his wrestling show. But on the big night he wrestled first-and "this bum gets me in a hammerlock, and he breaks my thumb. I was in such pain that I couldn't sing...
...riot squad was called out in Naples to quiet down a mutinous theater audience and remind Crooner Frank Sinatra that the show must go on. Billed to appear with his cinemactress wife Ava Gardner, Frankie had already left a matinee crowd grumbling by showing up without Ava (supposedly ailing in Milan). The excitable evening customers, who had paid $5 to $7.50 for their seats, hooted and hollered when Sinatra - still solo - walked off after singing one song. Police restored or der, persuaded him to finish...
...start work on The Student Prince, M-G-M lost its corporate patience, told lawyers to go ahead with its suit against the chubby Mario for $700,000 in production costs to date plus $4,500,000. the loss in anticipated profits. His probable replacement in the star role: Crooner Vic Damone, who will soon be released from the Army...
...Crooner Frank Sinatra, dunned by the Bureau of Internal Revenue a fortnight ago for $109,997 in back federal income taxes, applied to the Nevada state tax commission for permission to buy a 2% interest in the gambling concession at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas' newest casino. Reported price of the share...
...Manhattan, the Government slapped a tax lien against Frank Sinatra for $109,997 m back income taxes. Said the Crooner in Hollywood: "The legalistics involved are beyond my comprehension...