Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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YOUR ISSUE JUNE 3 CARRYING STORY ON KENNY DELMAR AS OUTSTANDING RADIO FATHER OF YEAR IS INCORRECT AND EXCEEDINGLY DAMAGING TO US AND OUR TRUE NOMINATION OF FRANK SINATRA AS RADIO FATHER OF YEAR FOR HIS WORK IN PROMOTING BROTHERHOOD AND UNITY...
Robert Burns got a backhanded tribute on the 150th anniversary of his death. In Manhattan the Rev. Charles S. Webster saw fit to say that the Scottish poet was not the irreligious tosspot he had been made out. Burns was really, said Pastor Webster, the Frank Sinatra...
Iturbi mugged with Sinatra in Anchors Aweigh, played The Donkey Serenade and conducted an 18-piano ensemble in a Technicolor thrashing of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. In his fifth picture (Holiday in Mexico) he appears with three other Iturbis-his sister, Amparo Iturbi, and his two grandchildren, Antonia and Teresa...
Capp got the idea a year ago, discussed it with Sinatra and friends. Charlie Ross, president of Barton Music Co., agreed to publish the song. Songsmith Sammy Stept (Don't Sit under the Apple Tree, etc.) wrote the music. Capp promised to draw the radio characters straight if they in turn would treat "Daisy Mae" and "Li'l Abner" as real people. Radio, which often lives in a comic-strip world, did not have to change pace...
Fans of the Li'l Abner comic strip last week recognized the unmistakable face of Frank Sinatra. He promised Daisy Mae Scragg that he would sing her song: Li'l Abner, Don't Marry That Girl. Objective: to prevent Abner Yokum from marrying Lena the Hyena from Lower Slobbovia. To Abner readers it was no more unusual than most of Creator Al Capp's fantasies -until Sinatra last week actually sang the song on his Wednesday night show...