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Progressive he may be, but Willie remains true to the bedrock traditions of folk, blues, jazz and country. His unusually sophisticated phrasing-now lagging behind the beat, now scooting ahead of it. twisting and rolling the melody like a champion lariat twirler-owes something to Frank Sinatra, one of his favorite singers. But his high, slightly nasal baritone retains an austere lyricism that goes back to Appalachian hills and hollows and beyond. Where much of commercial country music has only a catch in its throat, Willie's has a touch of iron in its soul...
Guzzi and Tsongas were traveling through the state yesterday hitting shopping centers and the suburbs. Kathleen Sullivan Alioto stepped up her media campaign with an advertisement featuring an endorsement from Frank Sinatra. State Representative Elaine Noble and Conservative Caucus candidate Howard Phillips '62, both suffering from limited resources, made use of free air time and various public debate forums...
Regardless of big attendance, Manager Tommy Lasorda, whose office walls are hung with pictures of such pals as Frank Sinatra and Comedian Don Rickles, sees no humor in being in a virtual tie for first place. Without the early season injuries, which are now mostly behind them, he feels sure the Dodgers would be soaring. Mildly but logically, Lasorda points to the fact: "You can't have two out of eight starters out and not be hurt...
...first book, Lauren Bacall By Myself, to be published in January. Her contract with Knopf "came along at a time in my life when I didn't know what I was going to do," says Bacall, 53. The autobiography, which describes her marriages and her affair with Frank Sinatra, will "tell much more about me than I ever thought people should know," says Bacall. But even if her book takes off, Bacall feels that her real calling is on Broadway. "The stage has been welcoming to me," she says. "I feel I belong...
...sendorfer has custom-built magnificent pianos for the Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, and for the czar of Russia. Bösendorfers have been owned by such masters as Anton Rubinstein, Gustav Mahler, Ignace Paderewski and more recently by Béla Bartok and Frank Sinatra. After World War II, however, production fell from its peak in 1913 to around 100 pianos a year. For one thing, the factory, once a monastery, needed modernizing. For another, hauteur some times precluded sales; one director was said to have dismissed a customer by saying that...