Word: sinatra
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...investors includes Simon Ramo, a director of the Times parent company and a founder of the huge electronics-aerospace firm TRW Inc., who also lent his name as a GeoTek director. Hollywood celebs who took fliers on Burke's oil funds include Kirk Douglas, Natalie Wood and Nancy Sinatra...
Sporting a tan, a toupee and a temper, Frank Sinatra finally showed up to testify before the House Select Committee on Crime and promptly denounced the legislators for permitting "character assassination." Specifically, he fumed that Mafia Enforcer Joseph Barboza had been unchallenged in testifying that Sinatra had "fronted" for the Mafia in real estate investments. "This bum went running off at the mouth. I resent it. I won't have it. I'm not a second-class citizen." Shaking a newspaper headline (WITNESS LINKS SINATRA WITH MAFIA) Sinatra snapped: "That's charming. That's all hearsay...
Where was Frank Sinatra? The House Select Committee on Crime wanted to ask him some questions about his part-ownership of the Berkshire Downs race track in Massachusetts during the early 1960s, when other part-owners included two Mafia leaders. But when the committee tried to serve a subpoena on Sinatra, it couldn't find the fast-moving horseman, who turned up in London-to attend some races. He was seen at dinner with Composer Frederick Loewe (My Fair Lady), but then checked out of his hotel for points unknown. Said a hotel spokesman: "Frank Sinatra is not here...
Emotional Secret. Roberta is a balladeer who blends jazz, pop and the blues in a way that recalls Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. She appeals to the Sinatra set as much as the jazz buffs, to the over-40s as much as their rock-bopping offspring. Her secret is that emotionally, she banks her fires. She knows that a low flame burns longer and more intriguingly than a high blaze. Thanks to her training, her voice retains a classical elegance, avoiding the frenzied bleating that characterizes so much pop singing today...
Last June Frank Sinatra announced his retirement from the world of show biz in characteristically theatrical fashion, crooning to a wet-eyed audience at a Los Angeles charity gala the last line from Angel Eyes: '"Scuse me while I disappear." Well, maybe not quite yet. Sinatra's announced plans-to "write a little bit"-may be put off by his appearance in another film, a musical based on Antoine de Saint Exupery's fairy tale, The Little Prince. The book is about a "little man" who convinces a pilot downed in the desert that life is worth...