Word: sinatra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Sinatra is the chief spokesman and one of the chief promoters of this serious scolding to the race-conscious. He breaks up a gang of junior neighborhood toughs who are about to beat up a kid vaguely described as belonging to the wrong church. Sinatra then delivers a lecture: without traditional U.S. tolerance, Presbyterian Colin Kelly and his Jewish bombardier, Meyer Levin, would never have become great U.S. heroes...
This well-meaning project is part of a larger Sinatra crusade (TIME, Oct. 1). It was staged with free help from topflight Hollywood talent: Producer Frank Ross, Director Mervyn LeRoy, Writer Albert Maltz (Pride of the Marines). They got the idea for the picture when they learned that Sinatra had been making spontaneous visits to high schools where he preached little sermons on tolerance. The short's message should be clear enough to anyone. To keep the bobby-sox trade in their seats, Sinatra tosses in two songs, If You Are But a Dream and a ballad with...
...Frank Sinatra, long troubled about the "millions of people listening in" who have been irritated by the squealing of his fans, finally discovered how to keep the girls from chitter-barking. "I . . . tried everything-talking to them, reasoning with them-but still they squealed," so, he said, he decided to ban all applause till the end of the broadcast, and the faithful obeyed...
...Sinatra comes upon a group of kids chasing a Jewish boy named Danny, because, as Danny says: "I got a different religion." Sinatra, taking charge, convinces Tommy, one of the tormentors, that the blood plasma Danny's father gave may have saved the life of Tommy's G.I. dad. Explains Sinatra: "Don't you get what I'm telling you? Religion doesn't make any real difference, except to a Nazi or a dope. . . . My father came from Italy. But I'm an American and should I hate your father, Tommy, because he came...
...Sinatra, now determined to give his following something besides a swoon, has also gone to work on fellow performers. He has persuaded Comic Danny Kaye, Dancer Gene Kelly and Crooner Bing Crosby to make movie shorts along the same lines. Said he last week: "I have never believed in anything so zealously in all my life...