Word: sinatra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hollow-cheeked Frank Sinatra made people listen, but he just didn't move them to go out and buy vitamins. The evidence was conclusive, and Vimms canceled its year-old contract. But there was solace for the swoonmaster: a new sponsor wanted him enough to raise the weekly ante from...
Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, whose high-school playmates called him "Angles" because he knew all of them, figured a new one last week: his own music-publishing firm in Manhattan-an anchor to windward against the day when his bobby-soxed fans will be wearing garters...
...line, they had their recording turntables spinning. The first big-company recording since 1942 was Vaughn Monroe's The Trolley Song, on 160,000 Victor discs. Columbia followed with Harry James's The Love I Long For and 500,000 copies of White Christmas, sung by Frank Sinatra. On the classical front, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz got there first with recordings of the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Columbia); runner-up was Pianist José Iturbi's recording of Morton Gould's Boogie Woogie Etude (Victor...
...storm center of Johnson's popularity seems to reside so firmly among girls below the age of consent that he is sometimes described as the voiceless Sinatra. Johnson's attitude towards this sudden, enormous popularity is rather baffled ("I can't pick my nose in public any more"). Equally, it is frank and heartfelt: "God," he says, "I hope it lasts." He understands his fans all the more sympathetically because he is still a celebrity hound himself. To meet Ronald Colman is still a breath-taking event...
Clark Gable, making his first public appearance since he was placed on the Army inactive list, was mobbed a la Sinatra by 500 screaming women who chased him through Hollywood's NBC studio. Said he: "They scared hell out of me. I was planning on a steak at the Brown Derby. ... I settled for a ham sandwich at home...