Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rally, engaged in a shouting contest with a Boston gallery that heckled her soft-spoken plea for the Fifth War Loan. Said she of the extra-long bob: "Who are you? bobby soxers?" Said they: "No!" Said she: "Well, who do you think you're listening to, Frank Sinatra?" A happy ending to the squabble came with the purchase of a $100,000 bond which included the privilege of having Veronica wash dishes at Mayor Maurice Tobin's luncheon...
...arrangements an interesting tenor chorus or a refreshing break by a trumpet or trombone. In fact most of the solos are really worthwhile in comparison to the greater portion of the music heard north of 125th St. So if you're tired of Frank- the Radcliffe-conception-of-virility-Sinatra and your soul cries our for some musical satisfaction, fall in at the Savoy any Sunday afternoon. If you don't like the band, bring your own horn, sit in, and help bring jazz to Boston...
Carl Brisson was last week fast becoming known as the "matrons' Sinatra." An elegant, dimpled, Danish grandfather, who admits to 46, he was packing ladies of ripe years into Manhattan's swank Versailles nightclub. Carl Brisson has a strictly personal, purple-tinted baritone, and for the use of it he was taking down some $2,000 a week. His was a curious, belated success story...
...Commissioning (or, Goodbye to Harvard, hello Sampson) Banquet are rapidly being formed. Entertainment is at present being quietly solicited. Jack Brunner, who evidently favors tennis courts to ballrooms, will be there with his guitar. Croonin' Huddy Futral promises to give the boys a tune. (Futral--the deflated Sinatra). A whole host of talent will be there...
...Frank Sinatra, bobbysocks Romeo, hospitalized with a bug in his throat and a temperature of 103½, was cooled off by the London Times: "Mr. Sinatra is unknown in this country and is likely to continue to remain...