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...Left My Heart in San Francisco. Old Bennett buffs had been wondering for years what had become of Tony, and they bought almost 2,000,000 copies to find out. Wasting no time, Bennett belted out three more hit disks whose titles faithfully reflected his brightening fortunes: I Wanna Be Around, The Good Life, This Is All I Ask. Today, at 37, Tony boasts bigger record sales than Frankie, Perry, Eddie, or any other old standby, and can confidently look forward to a real Bing Crosby future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Tony's Second Time Around | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...full-length mirror so he could admire his collard-leaf boutonniere; he left without a word. "Hey!" he will call out. "Butterflies faster than birds? Must be, 'cause with all the birds on the scene up in my neighborhood, there's this butterfly, and he flies any way he wanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The Loneliest Monk | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

Jackie turns to stare. Stupidity like this, he realizes, is really genius in reverse. Attention like this, she thinks, is very flattering. She decides he really isn't a jelly belly. "You're a fat Randolph Scott," she murmurs sensuously. "Ya wanna come over to my house, huh? Granmaw won't wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Noncompoops | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...astronaut would ride to the launch pad in a van and enter a gantry elevator for the space shot. Cooper donned a silver space suit, walked to the elevator entrance-and stopped in mock horror. As cameras whirred, he grabbed a girder and screamed: "No! I don't wanna go! I won't go!" The TV men were amused, but not the NASA officials. Again, during Gus Grissom's suborbital flight. Cooper, who had been flying a chase jet, buzzed the Cape and momentarily disrupted communications. He was severely reprimanded, and it was that sort of stunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Great Gordo | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...Wanna getta hiton B'way? Simple. Write one of those serio-comic-mystic-meaningless farces. How? Well, ecoutez...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Tchin-Tchin | 10/8/1962 | See Source »

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