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Word: sinatras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all gossip columnists, Irv Kupcinet finds nightclubs exciting, and gets some of the excitement into his column. Every night, sportily dressed in a shirt with long Sinatra-style points (and with KUP loudly emblazoned on his handkerchief, tie clasp, cuff links and gold ring) he patrols such spots as Chez Paree and the Shangri-La, slapping backs, sipping coffee, soaking up column items. His red-haired wife tags along, often wearing a blouse stenciled with his columns. He haunts the Pump Room of the swank Ambassador East Hotel, a telephone plugged in at his table. Even at home, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brimming Kup | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...York: Confidential! (Ziff-Davis; $2.75), may last a little longer than some of the others. It is a cynical, side-of-the-mouth guidebook that prices everything from pizzerias to call girls; Lait wrote it with his nightclub columnist and protégé, Lee Mortimer (the man Sinatra socked). Having sold 20,000 copies in its first fortnight, and sold to the movies for $50,000, it is off to a better start than Lait's The Big House (200,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hustling Hearstling | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Francis Albert ("The Voice") Sinatra, 30, crooner, and Nancy Barbato Sinatra, 28: their third child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Christina. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...haunting melody (it sounds something like an old Marlene Dietrich special), disc jockeys in three weeks have played it into No. 3 on Variety's jukebox hit parade. Other record companies last week scrambled to catch up. Unable to use Petrillo's men, Columbia recorded Frank Sinatra against a chorus of singers; Decca did the same with Dick Haymes. Nature Boy's lyrics, also by Ahbez, were a cut above the usual Tin Pan Alley doggerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nature Boy from Brooklyn | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

American Cancer Society Fund (Mon. 10:30 p.m., ABC). Eddie Dowling, Henry Morgan, Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny, Ruth Chatterton, Jo Stafford in a benefit show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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