Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emerson-and Gary-had known similar disputes before. By a strike 20 years ago, Emerson students succeeded in having Negroes excluded. Two years ago, Crooner Frank Sinatra flew from Hollywood to Gary to try to persuade Froebel High School students to end a strike over Negro pupils; the bobby-soxers squealed with delight but didn't take any of his line of reasoning. Superintendent Lutz, a strapping six-footer who used to be a football player himself, fared no better last week with the Golden Tornado team. Said one player: "We'll go back to school...
...things in common: rumply hair, wistful smiles and the languid air that makes some bobby-soxers want to squeal. As a group they were not necessarily the most promising singers.* But they were fairly typical of scores of eager aspirants to the crown of Crosby, the lesser diadem of Sinatra-or even the rich, purple mantles of Perry Como and Dick Haymes...
...promising young crooner. Last week his twitchy, bouncy tenor was being gargled for its third consecutive year on the air, with CBS's Jack Smith show (Mon.-Fri., 7:15 p.m.), and he was making a "nice four-figure thing." Says he, "I never expect to be a Sinatra. I just hope to last longer than some of these punks...
Perry Como joined the pelted crooners of history. Rudy Vallee had been struck by a grapefruit (1931); Frank Sinatra by an egg (1944); Crooner Como, deep in Dream, Dream,Dream at a Chicago theater, was awakened last week by a hunk of hard candy. His injury: a lump on the noggin...
...obtuse," wrote Peg, "so I assume that this refers to some news [Sinatra's meeting with Panderer Lucky Luciano] which deviated from the laudatory and purposely rapturous trash which had become standard Sinatra publicity as turned in by the saloon, movie, radio and gambling house journalists...