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By JAMES BACON HOLLYWOOD (A) -- Frank Sinatra hits 50 today, still making money and whooppee-- and is ready to make more of both. "1 Jook upon it as the halfway mark," says the skinny one from Hoboken, N.J., who has been called the top pop vocalist of his time. "'I expect to swing for 50 more." s Coincidentally, it's also the 25th anniversary of Sinatra's career as a recording star. The industry calls him the top al- bum seller ever. He estimates his records have grossed $100,- 000,000, Even albums recorded more than a decade ago net him $60,000 a year. HIRES BING "Sinatra is so rich he even hires Crosby," cracks comedian Bob Hope. There is as much truth as humor to the remark. ing, his greatest rival as a crooner, now records on Frank's Reprise labe! And true to his reputation as a sharp businessman, Sinatra is using the occasion of his 50th birthday to rake in a little stray), note but he is an uncanny! cash, His newest album, which) editor of music. He knows what probably will be acy end ee is best for him. r, is called September ver g 2 WORKED WITH JAMES The Sinatra birthday celebra- Sinatra's first big band tion will be mostly a family af-|was in 1939 with Harry James fair, with his first wife, Nancy Then came the famous early as host and the couple's three Second World War years with children. Tommy Dorsey. A punctured eardrum made SON SINGS TOO Frank ineligible for the draft Frank Jr., may not be able tO) and he became the stay-at-home make it. He's on the road band-| romantic idol of girls pining for singing just as his father did 25) their boy friends overseas years ago The fact that he had married " "Por the future, I'll go OM nis high school sweetheart pretty much as I have in the)Nancy Barbato, and hed fath past Sinatra says. "I MAY) ered three children by her made direct more pictures and Pr0-'no difference in his appeal to duce others but I'll act too. the bobby-sox set. They were "And, of course, I'll play the|qiyorced in 1951, but still are saloons. There's nothing like|the best of friends that live audience to keep your! Frank also is on good terms pipes in tune." with his other ex-wife, Ava Sinatra now in| Gardner. Hollywood. Close friends believe he will But the road to success hasn't| marry Mia Farrow, the 20-year- been easy. Sinatra says he'S/oiq daughter of actress Mau happy, but sometimes he actS!reen O'Sullivan and the late as a man possessed. director, John Farrow His moods are as varied as| "But only,' says one buddy his songs. When he's charming,|«jf she gives up her career to Cary Grant could yo os be Frank's wife." . When he isn't, watc 9 mn CHOSE RIN To his credit, nowadays he is Juliet Prowse got as far as charming much more than he |the engagement ring but chose is belligerent. career over Frank. No wedding ring. ADMIRES en heed er The low point in Sinatra's b ee ee, a ag Poe career came during his mar ut OV years : : lriage to Miss Gardner. Heart- mired people with restraint. 1 throb singing idols no longer sae I've wanted to be more' sang to lonely women, because am poe ellowed.'" the soldiers were home--and hom atone Frank. swings. | '"e girls weren't lonely any- Yet, he finds time to run a/™0Fe. ; ee huge enterprise with a business} In his last years with Col acumen that would do justice) FEATURE vibe SINATRA job is a giant um | bia Records, his average single sales dipped to 30,000 a record-- hardly enough to pay the band. Columbia dropped him, his agents dropped him and _ his studio dropped him. When his career seemed at an end Sinatra.sought and got the role of Maggio in From Here To Eternity -- receiving only $1,000. a week for eight weeks. It won him the Academy Award for the year's best sup-} porting actor. It also catapulted| him into tycoon status among) stars. No one knows for sure what Frank grosses a year and he isn't saying One business associate who should know puts it between| $4,000,000 and $6,000,000 a year, depending on the box-office re- turns of his movies, which usu-| ally gross well. He has a big office-bungalow) at Warner ros,, which Jack L.| Warner built just to entice| Frank's production company LOOMS AS HEIR The red-carpet treatment has led to speculation Sinatra is the heir apparent to Warner's throfie when 'the latter retires One thing uncontroversial Frank his singing Crosby recently paid him a compliment "I'm a crooner. Frank is a singer and a much better one than I. He's certainly the great est of our time and probably the greatest entertainer, too," The old groaner adds "'He's the type of singer who comes once in a lifetime, but lifetime?"' about is | ers aseemee oe =e ILLNESS Siure T Tw? SANTA.TO SICK LIMA, QOhio-(AP)..----Years ago the town fathers asked R. A. McClean to play Santa Claus, and he's been playing that role for sick children ever since, the year around. But Sunday he's giving it up, at the bedside of a sick young- ster. McClean will give the child a teddy bear--the 50,000th one he has presented to hospital- confined youngsters in 16 years . "Because of my health and my 'age, | now must give up going to hospitals . . . but I can still keep up my interest," said the 74-year-old McClean, a nursing home patient at nearby Spencerville. McClean is known as 'The Teddy Bear Man'--a name of which he is proud--at three hospitals here and another at St. Marys, Ohio. The teddy bears McClean has given to children over the years have cost at least $50,000 but because civic clubs, merchants, students, and oth- ers contributed funds it cost him next to nothing. 'I started with $21," he said. McClean said a love for children -- and knowing. how lonely it is to be ill--motivated him to his unusual hobby. 'Mystery Of The Wreaths | On Flyers' Graves Ended ST. THOMAS (CP)--Just be-| fore Christmas for the last 21 son," iL I THE OSHAWA TIMES, Mondey, December 13, 1965 17 , unabie to reach the parents of| others: LAC W. T. F. Neville, AC ie -Co J. Watt and LAC} .. C. Turner, all of the Royal! Australian Air Force, and LAC! \Leslie D. Bland of the ' she said, "'and these boys |it Force. Royal | ae are so far away from home. It's| years, wreaths have been|just a little bit and I'll do it piaced on the graves of fivejas long as I can." Commonwealth airmen killed in} She and her husband came, crashes while training in Elgin|to the plot with flowers every) County during the Second World|weekend until his death six| War. ig |years ago, But she continues to |. Until Friday, the identity ofjdecorate the graves at Christ- lthe donor: had been a closely|mas, Easter and when the loca! guarded secret. legion branch holds its annua! Reporters were on hand this|Memorial Day service. | year for 76-year-old Mrs, Wil-| Mrs. Smith has exchanged) liam Smith's annual visit to the|letters with the mother of one Roval Canadian Legion memo-!of the five airmen--Sgt. James rial plot just south of here. |McFawkner of the Royal New | The St. Thomas Silver Cross|Zeatand Air Force TODAY 2 HITS "MY BLOOD RUNS COLD" TROY DONAHUE Plus "PT BOAT 109" IN COLOR CLIFF ROBERTSON BILTMORE jmother reluctantly agreed to} But, she said, she has been teli her story. ene coo a SR ROS Her only son, Fit, Lt. Regin-| ald S: Smith, DFC, was killed in action over Burma July 30, }1944, when his transport plane ewes shot down by the Japanese.) |} "] have no grave.of my own], 7 / 5 } ge 0 © ~ddgtr #0 3° "Take a Break"... from the hustle and bustle of Christmes shopping. Relox and @ | bestamcres ov som contemy Pa 3. 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