Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peace & Welfare. Sinatra says he felt the first stirrings of philanthropy four years ago, decided on charity concert tours to raise money for orphanages. "As an overprivileged adult, I'd like to help underprivileged children," he announced. Last week he was midway on a six-week tour that will swing through seven nations. First stop was Japan, where his three concerts drew members of the imperial family, U.S. Ambassador Reischauer, and scrambling crowds. Proceeds of his week's work were $28,000, which he gave to Tokyo, asking that it be used to help 60 orphanages for Eurasian...
...busy nine days, he chatted with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ("Why must girls serve in the Israeli army?"), secured the key to Nazareth and a silver-embossed Bible, broke ground for the Frank Sinatra International Friendship Youth House ("I never thought a school would be named for me"), held gracious receptions and swung through nine concerts. By week's end, his voice was scratchy and tired, and he set off for a seven-day cruise to the Isle of Rhodes on a chartered yacht before his next round of appearances in Greece and Italy...
...Sinatra's Hollywood detractors dismiss the charity tour as a stunt to camouflage his unappealing Rat Pack image. His last two films have been box office successes, but critically, they were far below Sinatra's standard. Then, too, he has sailed rough weather lately. Juliet Prowse left him, mournfully considering his receding hairline. Worse, President Kennedy shattered Frank when, on his recent visit to California, he opted for Bing Crosby's Palm Springs digs instead of the new "Presidential Wing" Sinatra had tacked onto his own Palm Springs home in great expectations...
Death of the Clan. At 46, Sinatra is more alone now than since the days before his From Here to Eternity success made him a late-blooming perennial. Of the Clan, only Dean Martin and Mike Romanoff remain; Peter Lawford (whom Sinatra now snubs) is in a dark sulk, Sammy Davis is a family man. In his new flair for long talks with newsmen, he has conceded that only a few years remain for him as a performer...
...that, he is still close to the top of the Hollywood heap. His record company grossed $4,600,000 last year, and the range of movie roles that await him is broad and reassuring. His friends insist that there is no new Sinatra, that the new innocent abroad is only the old Sinatra with the old resentments stripped away. And overseas, the tour's inspiration matters less than the good it does...