Word: fabian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to rush to the home of a South Philadelphia neighbor when he saw an ambulance drive up. Policeman Domenic Forte had suffered a heart attack, and Bob stuck around to help. Suddenly he had a vision. He turned to the sick cop's 14-year-old son Fabian and asked: "How'd you like to be a singer?" The kid shuddered. "You crazy?" he snarled. Next day Fabian went back to playing basketball and football at South Philadelphia High and $6 a week as a stock clerk in a drugstore...
...Marcucci persisted. He saw in the round-shouldered boy with the smooth olive skin and the sharp, ducktail haircut just the sort of all-American appeal he was looking for. He made Fabian go to a voice teacher-three voice teachers, in fact, before one was willing to keep him as a pupil. Then Fabian made a couple of records that were duds. Undaunted, Marcucci embarked on a publicity campaign. He sent Fabian on a road tour, got him shots on local disk-jockey programs, and ran trade-paper teasers that screamed in big black type, "Fabian is coming...
...years later, Fabian is leaving them for dead at the jukeboxes. His voice, when it can be heard at all over the artful work of his accompanying musicians and the studio sound engineers, suggests mournfully that he is trying to imitate every rock-'n'-roller on record. Yet the noise sells. His rendition of Turn Me Loose was high on the charts for weeks, sold more than three-quarters of a million copies. Tiger, his latest, a song that Columnist John Crosby observes is "enormously improved by total unintelligibility," is climbing fast. Its popularity helps 16-year...
...role than he has extracted from it; he doesn't even live up to his own last name. Michael Wager acts a suitably foolish Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and looks ridiculous in his red and azure clothes and yellow gloves. John Karlen makes the most of the servant Fabian, the one badly written role in the play...
Died. G.D.H. (for George Douglas Howard) Cole, 69. grand old sachem of British socialism, Oxford don. Labor intellectual, president of the Fabian Society, chairman of the New Statesman, energetic author (A History of Socialist Thought, The Intelligent Man's Guide through World Chaos) who also wrote whodunits with his wife (Murder in the Munition Works)] in London. After onetime Prime Minister Clement Attlee was elevated to the peerage, G.D.H. Cole sneeringly wondered how a Laborite could "wish to be so degraded." Wrote New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin last week: "Douglas Cole was a secular saint...