Word: pipering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scrawny Piper. He believed them, and suddenly large numbers of young girls began to believe Sinatra. They began to make little ecstatic moans when Frankie sang. The boys in the band laughed, and moaned right back, but Frankie took it all in ferocious earnest. He knew his hour had struck, and he asked Dorsey for a release of contract. Tommy refused, but in the end, in return for a fat piece of Frankie's future, let him go, and Frank was booked into the Paramount...
...autograph. The crowds grew until, after some weeks, traffic in Times Square was stopped cold by the massed oblation of thousands of wriggling female children. Out came the riot squad, up went the headlines: FIVE THOUSAND GIRLS FIGHT TO GET VIEW OF FRANK SINATRA. A scrawny, wistful little piper had come to town, and the younger generation was following him in far greater numbers and enthusiasm than ever it had shown for the Hamelin original-or for Rudolph Valentino himself. Wherever he went, fans mobbed him. Even at home, Sinatra was not safe. His house in Hasbrouck Heights...
Allen in Movieland (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). A Spectacular starring Steve Allen, Jeff Chandler, Piper Laurie, Tony Curtis, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson...
Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Broadway, with Joseph Gotten, Piper Laurie, Keenan Wynn...
...year the company sold 1,199 commercial planes, worth $15 million; this year it expects to hit $30 million and pass Beech in dollar-volume as the biggest private plane maker. Beech Aircraft Corp., which sold $22 million worth of commercial planes in 1954, is aiming at $26 million. Piper Aircraft Corp. will increase its sales from $11 million to $16 million...