Word: sinatras
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...Episcopal service at which Prince Philip read from I Corinthians 3 for 600 fellow congregants, they flew on Air Force Two to Palm Springs for an idyl with Publisher Walter Annenberg. The royals' limousine wheeled into the driveway just past the intersection of Bob Hope Drive and Frank Sinatra Drive, beyond the 30-ft-tall reproduction Mayan column and within view of the three flags: Old Glory, the Union Jack and Annenberg's personal banner, a yellow Mayan rune against a white background. Annenberg, 74, spent 5½ years as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...every two friends you invite," Annenberg said, "you make 50 enemies." Hundreds of Southern California somebodies were upset about not being invited to Sunday night's 500-person bash on a Los Angeles movie sound stage. Nancy Reagan was hostess, and the President's pal Frank Sinatra rounded up the entertainment (Ed McMahon, Perry Como). So Ol' Blue Eyes blew up, understandably but in vain, about his exclusion from the Queen's smallish (50 or so) dinners aboard Britannia...
...chains for the men and metallic spandex pants for the women, so White House Social Secretary Muffie Brandon passed along subtle hints to the local press suggesting that long dresses and ties are more appropriate. The "old guard" will reign that night as Jimmy Stewart, Gary Grant and Frank Sinatra make up the Hollywood royalty in attendance...
DIED. Don Costa, 57, music conductor and arranger, whose versatile professionalism was relied on by top singers of the past three decades, including Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, in concerts, radio, television and more than 240 hit records; of a heart attack; in New York City...
Mudd sometimes degenerates into blatant name-dropping. He uses Troy, the Pyrennes, the Spanish Coast, and London for effect, without giving any reason for choosing these places. Like Frank Sinatra in "New York, New York" booming, "the city that never sleeps," Mudd tends to thumbs his nose at us ill-educated boors who have never travelled to Europe or seen the Trojan ruins...