Word: dorsey
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Died. Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, 60, cornet-playing jazzman and master of Dixieland, whose Five Pennies was one of the most popular white combos of the late 1920s, at times including such future stars as Benny Goodman, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Gene Krupa, but was eclipsed in the 1930s by the big dance bands of Red's former pupils until 1944, when he managed a small comeback with Five new Pennies on the nightclub circuit; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...
...formidable-looking front page. If Baltimoreans do not know what is going on everywhere, their ignorance is not the Sun's fault. It staffs bureaus all over the world, keeps 14 men in Washington. Upon being asked if the Sun was a crusading paper, Managing Editor Charles H. Dorsey answered with feeling: "Good God, I hope we never become one." His style is the style of Arunah Shepherdson Abell, the vagabond printer who started the Sun in 1837 and whose descendants are still on the board. The paper remains aloof, aristocratic, oldfashioned, proud and something of a snob-just...
...next 30 minutes, while the kid napers were setting themselves up and closing in, Frank Sinatra's 19-year-old son ate a room-service chicken dinner. A professional singer himself for all of seven months, he was traveling with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, which was in the sixth day of a three-week stand at Harrah's Club in the Sierra Nevadas. The club is on a neon-lit casino strip called Stateline, a non-town that straddles the California-Nevada border along Lake Tahoe's south shore...
...Frank Sinatra Jr. has gone summer-touring with the Tommy Dorsey band, and with his nasal intonation and easy delivery almost convinces listeners that they are back at the Paramount Theater, circa...
Some old tunes are apt to sound mighty familiar when the Tommy Dorsey band goes touring this May with its new featured vocalist, Frank Sinatra Jr., 19, son of Sinatra's first marriage. Raised by his mother Nancy in Beverly Hills, Frank Jr. quietly attended local public and private schools, still plans to continue drama studies at the University of Southern California. But once he cuts loose on the songs that Daddy taught him, history may well repeat itself. During an impromptu public appearance at Disneyland last summer, one youngish matron came up to the bandstand and purred: "That...