Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the Brookline Avenue bridge to the park it was clear that they at least had not changed. Sausage-necked goons stiff-walked in time to their own larded drummers. Little boys in loose t-shirts whom I remembered as urchins had been transformed into juvenile delinquents by Nancy Sinatra and television commercials. Teenagers whom I remembered as juvenile delinquents had been transformed into flabby facists by the Record American and television commercials. And students from intown colleges, fat thighs wrapped in white levis, yellow shirt-tails dangling, would make good followers for bad leaders. We were a motley crew...
...Corvette engine. Sonny's model set him back about $10,000, which is cheap considering that the Excalibur is the car-of-the-month in Hollywood, and that, furthermore, owning the car-of-the-month wins nearly as many prestige points these days as punching Frank Sinatra in the gush...
Diamond Dust. The sportier types go Ghia. The classic is the 1962 Dual Ghia L6.4. There are only 26 in the world; Sinatra has one and Dean Martin and his wife Jeannie have His & Her models. The Martin household, in fact, runs a fleet of ten vehicles including a World War II "Weasel" personnel carrier. Young Dino, 16, is planning to ditch his 1965 Ferrari and get a Lamborghini Miura P-400, which cruises at more than 200 m.p.h. Dean's mother-in-law has Jeannie's old 1961 Continental, which became declasse in Hollywood when pressagents began...
Died. Martin Block, 64, radio's original platter and patter man; during heart surgery; in Englewood, N.J. "It's Make-Believe Ballroom time," purled the theme song. "Put all your cares away." And millions did-to the tunes of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore. For the Ballroom's affable host, the recorded performers always came alive. "Great job, Benny," Block would applaud. "You never sounded better." The make-believe began in 1935 at New York's WNEW when Block's boss told him to pad news bulletins from the Lindbergh kidnap trial...
...finale may be some kind of landmark in cinema typecasting, perhaps not unrelated to Frank Sinatra's new chairmanship of the American-Italian Anti-Defamation League. As Lee and his soulmate sister-in-law (Angie Dickinson) battle their way up through the syndicate hierarchy in pursuit of his $93,000, it turns out that the evil big shots seem neither to have been born in Sicily nor to be afflicted with five o'clock shadow, but bear such names as Brewster, Carter and Fairfax. The biggest mobster of them all (Carroll O'Connor) is downright refined. Arriving...