Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Academy midshipman in the early '20s when his grandmother left him $100,000. Van quit the academy and went off to tour the world in the grandest manner possible. A year and a half later, he checked into a New York hotel with little but a full-dress suit to his name...
...aside the dress suit and went looking for work. After bit parts in twelve of the quickest flops in Broadway history, he applied to the major networks for a job in radio. They turned him down on the grounds that his voice was "too cold to appeal to women listeners." Then the full-dress suit came in handy. It got him a spot broadcasting gossip from nightclubs for an independent station...
Thirty-odd years have passed over Hoboken since that day, but what was true then still holds true. Francis Albert Sinatra, long grown out of his Little Lord Fauntleroy suit, is one of the most charming children in everyman's neighborhood; yet it is well to remember the jagged weapon. The one he carries nowadays is of the mind, and called ambition, but it takes an ever more exciting edge. With charm and sharp edges and a snake-slick gift of song, he has dazzled and slashed and coiled his way through a career unparalleled in extravagance...
...time on Frankie, she could and she did spend money. So did his uncles, two ex-fighters engaged vaguely in "the promotion business." All agree: "We spoiled the kid." In a street where all the other kids had nothing, Frankie had plenty. Almost every day he wore a different suit; by the time he got to high school, he had 14 sport coats, and when he was married, says his mother, there were no fewer than 30 suits in his closets. As a kid, he ran through more than half a dozen bikes before he was twelve. During his teens...
...present success with long-range business enterprises-five music companies, an independent film outfit, a 2% chunk of the enormous Sands gambling hotel in Las Vegas, and eleven shares "of the Atlantic City Racetrack. In movies, he picks his parts as carefully as he has always picked songs that suit both his talent and his taste. He works as fiercely as he plays...