Word: sinatra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower got a nice title too. A schoolgirls' club in Boston passed over Frank Sinatra and voted the General "The Most Exciting Man of 1946." The General's aide told the girls the General was "flattered indeed...
...expanded so rapidly that she finally had to hire two artists to help her turn out some 800-odd designs this year. That's still not enough, because her customers often insist on buying ties by the dozen. Among her strangely mixed clientele: William Randolph Hearst Sr., Frank Sinatra, Noel Coward, David Dubinsky and Harry Truman, who once failed at selling ties himself...
...These lines . . . stand up after all these years because they're about something, not Crosby's horses, Sinatra's blood count, or Benny's toupee. What do you think the radio scripts of today will sound like in 1975? Or had we better not go into that...
...show, Ted talks little. "The records do the work," he says, "and I just make the announcements quietly and charmingly." To help him he has one of the most carrying voices in radio. So far he has played mostly Crosby, Sinatra, Como, and top tunes arranged by top bandsmen. "This," he explains, "is because I intend to be a dignified disc-jockey." Dignity is paying off. Two new sponsors have signed up since the show started. That makes eleven. And fan mail has been almost as enthusiastic as the ditty Ted had tailor-made for the start and finish...
...Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst of the lot (see cut), awarded her creator, Basil Wolverton, a Vancouver, Wash, comic-book artist, a $500 prize...