Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean, surely you didn't expect a champion headlinemaker like Francis Albert (as he always insisted I call him--or would have, I'm sure, had we ever met) to stop making headlines just because of a minor matter like death. Being dead doesn't mean you can't go right on being controversial. Look at Tom Jefferson, 172 years without a twitch, but he's in hot water. And the FBI hasn't even released his file...
Allegation 1: that Francis Albert dodged the draft. Ridiculous. Everyone knows he was in both the Army and the Navy during World War II. You've seen him singing and dancing in a sailor suit while on shore leave. And you saw the tragic fight he waged while trying to defend Pearl Harbor against Ernest Borgnine. Some may say, "But those were just movies," but that's the point! It was Frank's obligation as a celebrity to keep morale high on the home front. That is what we ask of our stars during wartime, not to become cannon fodder...
Were Francis Albert Sinatra still alive today, he'd have been 83 years old last Saturday. Some people swear by his resoluteness and style. Many, simply swear at him, and probably justifiably so. Bracketing Frank the man, few can deny, though, his fundamental importance to American popular music. In such spirit, I'd like to say, Thanks Frank. Thanks for the music...
...going through it. These people I've mentioned are going through it as well. Once in a while, we get together. And it is special. So too, from the far recesses of my mind, do I draw together with the music of my youth, the music of Francis Albert Sinatra. Godspeed Frank...
...DIED. ALBERT GORE SR., 90, former Tennessee Congressman and Senator and father of the Vice President; in Carthage. A key mover behind the interstate highway system and a Southern liberal who took unpopular stands against segregation and the Vietnam War, he once advised his son not to settle for the No. 2 spot, calling it a "dead-end street...