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Many a U.S. crooner, what with wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth, sings like a man who learned his style in a concentration camp. Robert Clary actually did. He spent three years in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. and whiled away some of the time by singing for his fellow prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Belter | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Cinemactress Ava Gardner, who has been avoiding the public since her latest spat with husband Frank Sinatra (during which Crooner Sinatra reportedly called in the police to help in getting Ava out of their Palm Springs house), briefly reappeared. Dropping over to the famed handprinted-footprinted pavement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ava delicately planted a sandaled foot in a block of wet cement, thereby establishing herself solidly for posterity as a certified movie queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...Diddle-Diddle (Phil Harris and the Bell Sisters; Victor). Basso-Crooner Harris goes back to his childhood here, but the tune is lively and the near nursery-rhyme lyrics pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Nov. 3, 1952 | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...Crooner Frank Sinatra confessed that he and his bride Ava Gardner had had a mild rift-just something "that might happen between a man and a wife"-but there was no reason for reporters to suspect a divorce. A few days later, Frankie flew home to Hollywood, discovered that Ava and Lana Turner (see above) had taken off together for Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...Baby (Frank Sinatra; Columbia). Crooner Sinatra, who has been in need of a hit record for years, turns up in a socko mood that might turn the trick, "dim clam cleanup the rim ram room," shouts Frankie, " 'cause your bim bam baby's comin' home tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Aug. 11, 1952 | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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