Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside Washington, the movement was back to normal. There were parties: in Chicago, the Anti-Superstition Society held its customary Friday the 13th blast. There were crimes: young Sinatra's kidnaping got the biggest headlines, but more in the spirit of the season were the two gunmen who came into the Alpine State Bank in Rockford, III., in Santa Claus costumes, locked the employees in a vault and made off with $36,000. Finally, there was Christmas acoming; in Boston, live reindeer pranced on the Common, not far from a creche with a sign that was a symbol...
...phone rang. Young Frank answered, then said: "You have the wrong room. This is 417." But the caller didn't have the wrong room. He had asked the switchboard operator for Frank Sinatra Jr., and Frank had inadvertently told him what he wanted to know...
...SINATRA'S SINATRA (Reprise) is supposed to be "a collection of Frank's favorites," and turns out to be a bland bouquet of his hits...
...evening in August 1955, I was reading the TIME cover story on Frank Sinatra, in which he was reported as saying: "If it hadn't been for my interest in music, I'd probably have ended in a life of crime." I stopped short on that sentence, remembering another TIME story, shortly before, that reported a murderer shot down in Chicago in a gun battle with the police who said: "I always been fond of music. Maybe if I'd been any good at it, I'd have done it that way instead." By about...
...Simon has become Broadway's leading comedy writer. His Come Blow Your Horn opened on Broadway in 1961, ran for 85 weeks, and has now been metamorphosed into a Frank Sinatra movie. Last year, commissioned by Producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin to turn Patrick Dennis' Little Me into a musical, Simon got a brainflash, wrote all seven of the major male roles for Sid Caesar, creating one of the season's better box-office draws...