Word: mel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although they have the sharpshooting Terry Baker and a big height advantage with 7 ft. Mel Counts and 6 ft. 7 in. Jim Kraus, the Beavers will probably lose to Cincinnati by 15 points...
...sporty figure sipping a spot of Pernod at the peak is Aristotle Onassis and the lady sitting it out at the bottom is Elsa Maxwell, then the site is St. Moritz. If the set is peopled by a slightly showier crowd, among them players such as Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer and Deborah Kerr, it is Klosters. And if the Greek fellow is named Stavros Niarchos and the other folk include the King and Queen of Thailand, Jordan's King Hussein and Monaco's Rainier and Grace, then, undoubtedly, the place is Gstaad, and-this year more than ever...
...that he is 37, Mel Tormé can look back with ease upon a bountiful life in music: lots of money, dozens of cars, two wives, three psychiatrists. In person, though, he has always been a sour-luck man whose glance wilts a flower. As a result, he managed to overwhelm his great talents as crooner, composer, actor, drummer, pianist and arranger and become an engaging failure. Good old Mel, his friends in music say, the public never liked him. But he is also a singer of jazz, and in that difficult and unfriendly medium, he has lately become...
...unqualified successes of an unhappy life. When he was 14, he wrote an excellent song called Lament to Love and sold it to Harry James, but James took so long to play it that by the time it became a hit, all Mel's friends had already decided he was a liar. At 21, he made his New York debut as a singer with Mitzi Green at the Copacabana. "An egotistical, untalented little amateur," said Dorothy Kilgallen, and Earl Wilson said, "I'll take Mitzi; to hell with Mel." Mel was so deeply stung that he remembers...
...limp crooner, and tempted tricksters to heckle him by slipping the irresistible r into "Fog." "Life was nothing but traveling," he says. "I was very unhappy with my recording career. Everywhere people would give me the 'so-you're-the-cocky-little-kid' bit." Mel's obstinacy never withered, and as he grew up on the psychiatric couch, it eventually became an element of strength that preserved his taste and led him closer to jazz...