Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former Gov. Ronald E. Reagan, unannounced Republican presidential candidate, will speak at the Music Hall in Boston on November 2 at a fundraiser featuring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin...
Morgan Mason, assistant director of the National Reagan for President Committee, said the two singer performers are "more than firm supporters of the campaign and personal friends of the governor." Mason added he expected Sinatra and Martin to appear at future fundraising events for Reagan...
...father, God bless him, would have burst his buttons. My blessed mother would have been running from door to door to tell the neighbors the good news." Neither, alas, was alive to see their distinguished son Frank Sinatra invested as a grande ufficiale al merito della repubblica italiana. The citation read by Amedeo Cerchione, Italian consul general in Los Angeles, ranked Sinatra a "great and meritorious official of the Italian republic" for his philanthropic work, the prestige he has brought Italy as an Italian American and, of course, because he has "proved himself a brilliant actor, a most capable interpreter...
...crossbow from Admirer Wladyslaw Adamowski of Poland, a handmade Cherokee Indian headdress from Iron Eyes Cody of Los Angeles, a 32-cassette tape recording of the Koran recited by Mahmond El Husary of Cairo's Islamic Academy, and a vermeil chain with 62 gold peanut pendants from Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy. All of the gifts were turned over to the Government, with five exceptions; a Norman Rockwell book from the Boy Scouts of America, a limited edition of Poet James Dickey's tribute to Composer Aaron Copland, two Cherokee Indian clay pots, 600 to 800 years...
...Solters, a Sinatra spokesman in Los Angeles, explained that the crooner was angered by a recent column by William Safire in the New York Times that mentioned his alleged gangland ties. "You are a goddam liar," Sinatra telegraphed Safire, who printed the singer's denial in a subsequent column but stuck by his original story. In a letter accompanying Kampelman's article, Sinatra urges his readers to join with him in "reminding the press that there is more to the Constitution ... than the First Amendment it so frequently hides behind...