Word: sinatra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Sinatra's left eardrum kept him out of the Army. He made a sleeper-jump from a Boston date to one with the Army's doctors in Newark, learned that the drum was punctured, learned that he ought to get more sleep, learned that he was now 4-F, moved on to a two-week stand in Pittsburgh...
There was a sufficiency of food and in certain cases, almost an over sufficiency of liquid refreshment. I was sincerely surprised at the abundance of talent that sprang up that evening of December 10. It was generally said that in comparison to our Hubert Hufferd that "The Voice" Sinatra is in the bush-leagues. He has not only the proper treble and volumes, but our boy has ENDURANCE. There are very few people who can stand at the "mike" and sing for a period of an hour or so without stopping for a breath...
Married. Lieut. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, 43, Coast Guard Bandmaster, Sinatra of the '20s; and Cinemactress Bette-Jane Greer, 19, almond-eyed ex-cover girl; he for the third time, she for the first; seven years after his divorce from the late cinemactress Fay Webb; in Hollywood...
...frustrated American males last night came relief in the form of a Newark draft board, which dourly foureffed America's big noise of the year, a loved-up character known as Frank Sinatra to most and Oooooofrankie to a select few who poured over $6,000 in the till of the R.K.O. Boston last week when crooner Sinatra came to sample of the bean...
Effect on girls all over the nation has not been calculated, but most sociologists, who feel that the Sinatra complex is a phase of a mass-loneliness cycle caused by the war, would say that this will strengthen the whole thing: if the U. S. Army won't mother him, the girls will probably want to comfort him about the whole thing: he feels terrible about it. It appears that he had been boasting to his friends about how he was going to make the grade and become a private...