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...crooned Frank Sinatra in the late 1960s. Now, since his semiretirement from show biz, his business rivals are learning that he really meant what he sang. The latest object of Sinatra's approach: the Del E. Webb Corp., a $340 million-a-year Phoenix-based company that was founded by the late Del Webb, the renowned builder and former part-owner of the New York Yankees, who died in 1974. Late last month Sinatra filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a 14B form, which is the customary prelude to a proxy war. Bracing for the onslaught...
...Rolling Stone readers, is Peter Frampton, 26. No wonder. His latest album, Frampton Comes Alive!, has sold 10 million copies, and 2 million fans this year have seen and heard the gyrating rock singer in concert Frampton's modest explanation of his success: "I do what Jolson, Sinatra, Tony Bennett and the Beatles did-what all the greats do. I communicate." Frampton has signed to make a movie in which he will play a rock star who sings the Beatles' songs. The film's title: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...
Cheshire's sleuthing has brought her anguish of her own. After some less than flattering observations in print about Frank Sinatra's cronies and his budding friendship with Spiro Agnew, Cheshire bumped into Ol' Blue Eyes on Inauguration Night 1973. Sinatra loudly insulted her and stuffed a couple of one-dollar bills into her empty glass-a display that drove Cheshire to tears...
Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali must be taking retirement lessons from Frank Sinatra. Less than two months after quitting once again, Ali announced plans for a few more lucrative turns around the ring. Taking a break between rounds of his current project, a movie biography titled The Greatest, Ali engaged in some patented prefight name-calling with Heavyweight Challenger George Foreman. George said he was ready for Muhammad, but the champ wants a match with unbeaten Duane Bobick first. "I am the king of boxing," said Ali. "I do what I like when I like...
Fleecing Friars. Roselli got along famously with the Jessel-Sinatra crowd, but again temptation got in his way. In 1968 he and four others were convicted of swindling members of the Friars - including Comedians Phil Silvers and Zeppo Marx and Singer Tony Martin -out of some $400,000 by cheating at cards. The elaborate fleecing system involved observers in the attic who peered through peepholes to read the cards of the players. They then flashed coded electronic signals to a member of the ring seated at the table, who picked up the messages on equipment he wore on a girdle...