A few snippets from Sinatra's interview in Playboy in February 1963:
***"Remember that leering, cursing lynch mob in Little Rock reviling a meek, innocent 12-year-old Negro girl as she tried to enroll in public school? Weren't they -- or most of them -- devout churchgoers? I detest the two-faced who pretend liberality but are practiced bigots in their own mean little spheres."
***"If the press reports world news as they report about me, we're in trouble."
***"Anyway I asked Mike [Mike Romanoff] what would happen if a summit meeting of all the leaders in every country in the world was called, including Red China, at the U.N. Further suppose that each leader brings with him his top aides: Kennedy brings Rusk, Krushchev brings Gromyko, Mao brings Chou. All these cats are together in one room, then -- boom! Somebody blows up the mother building. No more leaders. No more deputies. The question I asked Mike, and the one I ask you, is: What would happen to the world?
Playboy: You tell us?
Sinatra: I told Mike I thought it might be the only chance the world has for survival. But Mike just shook his head and said, "Frank, you're very sick." Maybe so. Until someone lights the fuse, however, I think that continuation of the cold war prepararedness might be more effective to maintain the peace than the dewey-eyed notion of total disarmament. I also wonder if 'total' disarmament includes chemical and bacteriological weapons -- which, as you know, can be just as lethal as nuclear weapons. Card players have a saying: 'It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck' -- which is another way of saying, 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.' "
***"Our concern over a Sovietized Cuba 90 miles from Key West, for instance, must be equated with Russian concern over our missile bases surrounding them. It is proper that we should be deeply concerned, but we must be able to see their side of the coin -- and not let this concern turn into fear on either side."
***Playboy: On a practical level, how would you combat Communist expanion into such areas as Cuba, Laos and the emerging African nations? Sinatra: It strikes me as being so ridiculously simple: Stop worring about communism: just get rid of the conditions that nurture it."
***"Attending rallies sponsored by 110-percent anti-Communist cultists or donning white sheets and riding with the Klan -- the one that's spelled with a "K" -- isn't the answer. All I know is that a nation with our standard of living, with our Social Security system, TVA, farm parity, health plans and unemployment insurance can afford to address itself to the cancers of starvation, substandard housing, educational voids and second-class citizenship that still exist in many backsliding areas of our own country. When we've cleaned these blemishes, then we can go out with a clean conscience to see where else in the world we can help. Hunger is inexcusable in a world where grain rots in silos and butter turns rancid while being held for favorable commodity indices."
>A few snippets from Sinatra's interview in Playboy in February 1963:
>***"Remember that leering, cursing lynch mob in Little Rock reviling a meek, >innocent 12-year-old Negro girl as she tried to enroll in public school? >Weren't they -- or most of them -- devout churchgoers? I detest the >two-faced who pretend liberality but are practiced bigots in their own mean >little spheres."
>***"If the press reports world news as they report about me, we're in >trouble."
>***"Anyway I asked Mike [Mike Romanoff] what would happen if a summit >meeting of all the leaders in every country in the world was called, >including Red China, at the U.N. Further suppose that each leader brings >with him his top aides: Kennedy brings Rusk, Krushchev brings Gromyko, Mao >brings Chou. All these cats are together in one room, then -- boom! Somebody >blows up the mother building. No more leaders. No more deputies. The >question I asked Mike, and the one I ask you, is: What would happen to the >world?
>Playboy: You tell us?
>Sinatra: I told Mike I thought it might be the only chance the world has for >survival. But Mike just shook his head and said, "Frank, you're very sick." >Maybe so. Until someone lights the fuse, however, I think that continuation >of the cold war prepararedness might be more effective to maintain the peace >than the dewey-eyed notion of total disarmament. I also wonder if 'total' >disarmament includes chemical and bacteriological weapons -- which, as you >know, can be just as lethal as nuclear weapons. Card players have a saying: >'It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck' -- which is >another way of saying, 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.' "
>***"Our concern over a Sovietized Cuba 90 miles from Key West, for instance, >must be equated with Russian concern over our missile bases surrounding >them. It is proper that we should be deeply concerned, but we must be able >to see their side of the coin -- and not let this concern turn into fear on >either side."
>***Playboy: On a practical level, how would you combat Communist expanion >into such areas as Cuba, Laos and the emerging African nations? >Sinatra: It strikes me as being so ridiculously simple: Stop worring about >communism: just get rid of the conditions that nurture it."
>***"Attending rallies sponsored by 110-percent anti-Communist cultists or >donning white sheets and riding with the Klan -- the one that's spelled with >a "K" -- isn't the answer. All I know is that a nation with our standard of >living, with our Social Security system, TVA, farm parity, health plans and >unemployment insurance can afford to address itself to the cancers of >starvation, substandard housing, educational voids and second-class >citizenship that still exist in many backsliding areas of our own country. >When we've cleaned these blemishes, then we can go out with a clean >conscience to see where else in the world we can help. Hunger is inexcusable >in a world where grain rots in silos and butter turns rancid while being >held for favorable commodity indices."
FWIW, Sinatra's 1963 PLAYBOY interview has long been rumored to have actually been authored by Reprise Records advertising executive Mike Shore (cf. Will Friedwald, SINATRA! THE SONG IS YOU [New York: Scribner, 1995], p. 478).
> >A few snippets from Sinatra's interview in Playboy in February 1963:
> >***"Remember that leering, cursing lynch mob in Little Rock reviling a meek, > >innocent 12-year-old Negro girl as she tried to enroll in public school? > >Weren't they -- or most of them -- devout churchgoers? I detest the > >two-faced who pretend liberality but are practiced bigots in their own mean > >little spheres."
> >***"If the press reports world news as they report about me, we're in > >trouble."
> >***"Anyway I asked Mike [Mike Romanoff] what would happen if a summit > >meeting of all the leaders in every country in the world was called, > >including Red China, at the U.N. Further suppose that each leader brings > >with him his top aides: Kennedy brings Rusk, Krushchev brings Gromyko, Mao > >brings Chou. All these cats are together in one room, then -- boom! Somebody > >blows up the mother building. No more leaders. No more deputies. The > >question I asked Mike, and the one I ask you, is: What would happen to the > >world?
> >Playboy: You tell us?
> >Sinatra: I told Mike I thought it might be the only chance the world has for > >survival. But Mike just shook his head and said, "Frank, you're very sick." > >Maybe so. Until someone lights the fuse, however, I think that continuation > >of the cold war prepararedness might be more effective to maintain the peace > >than the dewey-eyed notion of total disarmament. I also wonder if 'total' > >disarmament includes chemical and bacteriological weapons -- which, as you > >know, can be just as lethal as nuclear weapons. Card players have a saying: > >'It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck' -- which is > >another way of saying, 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.' "
> >***"Our concern over a Sovietized Cuba 90 miles from Key West, for instance, > >must be equated with Russian concern over our missile bases surrounding > >them. It is proper that we should be deeply concerned, but we must be able > >to see their side of the coin -- and not let this concern turn into fear on > >either side."
> >***Playboy: On a practical level, how would you combat Communist expanion > >into such areas as Cuba, Laos and the emerging African nations? > >Sinatra: It strikes me as being so ridiculously simple: Stop worring about > >communism: just get rid of the conditions that nurture it."
> >***"Attending rallies sponsored by 110-percent anti-Communist cultists or > >donning white sheets and riding with the Klan -- the one that's spelled with > >a "K" -- isn't the answer. All I know is that a nation with our standard of > >living, with our Social Security system, TVA, farm parity, health plans and > >unemployment insurance can afford to address itself to the cancers of > >starvation, substandard housing, educational voids and second-class > >citizenship that still exist in many backsliding areas of our own country. > >When we've cleaned these blemishes, then we can go out with a clean > >conscience to see where else in the world we can help. Hunger is inexcusable > >in a world where grain rots in silos and butter turns rancid while being > >held for favorable commodity indices."
> FWIW, Sinatra's 1963 PLAYBOY interview has long been rumored to have > actually been authored by Reprise Records advertising executive Mike Shore > (cf. Will Friedwald, SINATRA! THE SONG IS YOU [New York: Scribner, 1995], > p. 478).
> Dave
Thanks for that info Dave. One can be fairly certain that Sinatra edited the final product and approved the final version. Of course the reputation of Joe Hyams and William Read Woodfield might have been impacted if it was known at the time that an ad exec had a hand in putting Sinatra's answers together.
The fact that Kennedy had agreed to get rid of some missiles in Turkey was a closely held secret.
Sinatra scores a bullseye when he says: "Our concern over a Sovietized Cuba 90 miles from Key West, for instance, must be equated with Russian concern over our missile bases surrounding them."
Makes one wonder if JFK did some talking to a very close acquaintance about this agreement.
Then again, it may just be coincidence.
Peter
"Peter Fokes" <pfokesspampr...@rogers.com> wrote in message
> A few snippets from Sinatra's interview in Playboy in February 1963:
> ***"Remember that leering, cursing lynch mob in Little Rock reviling a meek, > innocent 12-year-old Negro girl as she tried to enroll in public school? > Weren't they -- or most of them -- devout churchgoers? I detest the > two-faced who pretend liberality but are practiced bigots in their own mean > little spheres."
> ***"If the press reports world news as they report about me, we're in > trouble."
> ***"Anyway I asked Mike [Mike Romanoff] what would happen if a summit > meeting of all the leaders in every country in the world was called, > including Red China, at the U.N. Further suppose that each leader brings > with him his top aides: Kennedy brings Rusk, Krushchev brings Gromyko, Mao > brings Chou. All these cats are together in one room, then -- boom! Somebody > blows up the mother building. No more leaders. No more deputies. The > question I asked Mike, and the one I ask you, is: What would happen to the > world?
> Playboy: You tell us?
> Sinatra: I told Mike I thought it might be the only chance the world has for > survival. But Mike just shook his head and said, "Frank, you're very sick." > Maybe so. Until someone lights the fuse, however, I think that continuation > of the cold war prepararedness might be more effective to maintain the peace > than the dewey-eyed notion of total disarmament. I also wonder if 'total' > disarmament includes chemical and bacteriological weapons -- which, as you > know, can be just as lethal as nuclear weapons. Card players have a saying: > 'It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck' -- which is > another way of saying, 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.' "
> ***"Our concern over a Sovietized Cuba 90 miles from Key West, for instance, > must be equated with Russian concern over our missile bases surrounding > them. It is proper that we should be deeply concerned, but we must be able > to see their side of the coin -- and not let this concern turn into fear on > either side."
> ***Playboy: On a practical level, how would you combat Communist expanion > into such areas as Cuba, Laos and the emerging African nations? > Sinatra: It strikes me as being so ridiculously simple: Stop worring about > communism: just get rid of the conditions that nurture it."
> ***"Attending rallies sponsored by 110-percent anti-Communist cultists or > donning white sheets and riding with the Klan -- the one that's spelled with > a "K" -- isn't the answer. All I know is that a nation with our standard of > living, with our Social Security system, TVA, farm parity, health plans and > unemployment insurance can afford to address itself to the cancers of > starvation, substandard housing, educational voids and second-class > citizenship that still exist in many backsliding areas of our own country. > When we've cleaned these blemishes, then we can go out with a clean > conscience to see where else in the world we can help. Hunger is inexcusable > in a world where grain rots in silos and butter turns rancid while being > held for favorable commodity indices."
Dave Reitzes wrote: >>From: "Peter Fokes" pfokesspampr...@rogers.com
>>A few snippets from Sinatra's interview in Playboy in February 1963:
>>***"Remember that leering, cursing lynch mob in Little Rock reviling a meek, >>innocent 12-year-old Negro girl as she tried to enroll in public school? >>Weren't they -- or most of them -- devout churchgoers? I detest the >>two-faced who pretend liberality but are practiced bigots in their own mean >>little spheres."
>>***"If the press reports world news as they report about me, we're in >>trouble."
>>***"Anyway I asked Mike [Mike Romanoff] what would happen if a summit >>meeting of all the leaders in every country in the world was called, >>including Red China, at the U.N. Further suppose that each leader brings >>with him his top aides: Kennedy brings Rusk, Krushchev brings Gromyko, Mao >>brings Chou. All these cats are together in one room, then -- boom! Somebody >>blows up the mother building. No more leaders. No more deputies. The >>question I asked Mike, and the one I ask you, is: What would happen to the >>world?
>>Playboy: You tell us?
>>Sinatra: I told Mike I thought it might be the only chance the world has for >>survival. But Mike just shook his head and said, "Frank, you're very sick." >>Maybe so. Until someone lights the fuse, however, I think that continuation >>of the cold war prepararedness might be more effective to maintain the peace >>than the dewey-eyed notion of total disarmament. I also wonder if 'total' >>disarmament includes chemical and bacteriological weapons -- which, as you >>know, can be just as lethal as nuclear weapons. Card players have a saying: >>'It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck' -- which is >>another way of saying, 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.' "
>>***"Our concern over a Sovietized Cuba 90 miles from Key West, for instance, >>must be equated with Russian concern over our missile bases surrounding >>them. It is proper that we should be deeply concerned, but we must be able >>to see their side of the coin -- and not let this concern turn into fear on >>either side."
>>***Playboy: On a practical level, how would you combat Communist expanion >>into such areas as Cuba, Laos and the emerging African nations? >>Sinatra: It strikes me as being so ridiculously simple: Stop worring about >>communism: just get rid of the conditions that nurture it."
>>***"Attending rallies sponsored by 110-percent anti-Communist cultists or >>donning white sheets and riding with the Klan -- the one that's spelled with >>a "K" -- isn't the answer. All I know is that a nation with our standard of >>living, with our Social Security system, TVA, farm parity, health plans and >>unemployment insurance can afford to address itself to the cancers of >>starvation, substandard housing, educational voids and second-class >>citizenship that still exist in many backsliding areas of our own country. >>When we've cleaned these blemishes, then we can go out with a clean >>conscience to see where else in the world we can help. Hunger is inexcusable >>in a world where grain rots in silos and butter turns rancid while being >>held for favorable commodity indices."
> FWIW, Sinatra's 1963 PLAYBOY interview has long been rumored to have > actually been authored by Reprise Records advertising executive Mike Shore > (cf. Will Friedwald, SINATRA! THE SONG IS YOU [New York: Scribner, 1995], > p. 478).
Peter Fokes wrote: > The fact that Kennedy had agreed to get rid of some missiles in Turkey was a > closely held secret.
> Sinatra scores a bullseye when he says: "Our concern over a Sovietized Cuba > 90 miles from Key West, for instance, > must be equated with Russian concern over our missile bases surrounding > them."
> Makes one wonder if JFK did some talking to a very close acquaintance about > this agreement.
>>A few snippets from Sinatra's interview in Playboy in February 1963:
>>***"Remember that leering, cursing lynch mob in Little Rock reviling a
> meek,
>>innocent 12-year-old Negro girl as she tried to enroll in public school? >>Weren't they -- or most of them -- devout churchgoers? I detest the >>two-faced who pretend liberality but are practiced bigots in their own
> mean
>>little spheres."
>>***"If the press reports world news as they report about me, we're in >>trouble."
>>***"Anyway I asked Mike [Mike Romanoff] what would happen if a summit >>meeting of all the leaders in every country in the world was called, >>including Red China, at the U.N. Further suppose that each leader brings >>with him his top aides: Kennedy brings Rusk, Krushchev brings Gromyko, Mao >>brings Chou. All these cats are together in one room, then -- boom!
> Somebody
>>blows up the mother building. No more leaders. No more deputies. The >>question I asked Mike, and the one I ask you, is: What would happen to the >>world?
>>Playboy: You tell us?
>>Sinatra: I told Mike I thought it might be the only chance the world has
> for
>>survival. But Mike just shook his head and said, "Frank, you're very
> sick."
>>Maybe so. Until someone lights the fuse, however, I think that
> continuation
>>of the cold war prepararedness might be more effective to maintain the
> peace
>>than the dewey-eyed notion of total disarmament. I also wonder if 'total' >>disarmament includes chemical and bacteriological weapons -- which, as you >>know, can be just as lethal as nuclear weapons. Card players have a
> saying:
>>'It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck' -- which is >>another way of saying, 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.' "
>>***"Our concern over a Sovietized Cuba 90 miles from Key West, for
> instance,
>>must be equated with Russian concern over our missile bases surrounding >>them. It is proper that we should be deeply concerned, but we must be able >>to see their side of the coin -- and not let this concern turn into fear
> on
>>either side."
>>***Playboy: On a practical level, how would you combat Communist expanion >>into such areas as Cuba, Laos and the emerging African nations? >>Sinatra: It strikes me as being so ridiculously simple: Stop worring about >>communism: just get rid of the conditions that nurture it."
>>***"Attending rallies sponsored by 110-percent anti-Communist cultists or >>donning white sheets and riding with the Klan -- the one that's spelled
> with
>>a "K" -- isn't the answer. All I know is that a nation with our standard
> of
>>living, with our Social Security system, TVA, farm parity, health plans
> and
>>unemployment insurance can afford to address itself to the cancers of >>starvation, substandard housing, educational voids and second-class >>citizenship that still exist in many backsliding areas of our own country. >>When we've cleaned these blemishes, then we can go out with a clean >>conscience to see where else in the world we can help. Hunger is
> inexcusable
>>in a world where grain rots in silos and butter turns rancid while being >>held for favorable commodity indices."
> >A few snippets from Sinatra's interview in Playboy in February 1963:
> >***"Remember that leering, cursing lynch mob in Little Rock reviling a meek, > >innocent 12-year-old Negro girl as she tried to enroll in public school? > >Weren't they -- or most of them -- devout churchgoers? I detest the > >two-faced who pretend liberality but are practiced bigots in their own mean > >little spheres."
> >***"If the press reports world news as they report about me, we're in > >trouble."
> >***"Anyway I asked Mike [Mike Romanoff] what would happen if a summit > >meeting of all the leaders in every country in the world was called, > >including Red China, at the U.N. Further suppose that each leader brings > >with him his top aides: Kennedy brings Rusk, Krushchev brings Gromyko, Mao > >brings Chou. All these cats are together in one room, then -- boom! Somebody > >blows up the mother building. No more leaders. No more deputies. The > >question I asked Mike, and the one I ask you, is: What would happen to the > >world?
> >Playboy: You tell us?
> >Sinatra: I told Mike I thought it might be the only chance the world has for > >survival. But Mike just shook his head and said, "Frank, you're very sick." > >Maybe so. Until someone lights the fuse, however, I think that continuation > >of the cold war prepararedness might be more effective to maintain the peace > >than the dewey-eyed notion of total disarmament. I also wonder if 'total' > >disarmament includes chemical and bacteriological weapons -- which, as you > >know, can be just as lethal as nuclear weapons. Card players have a saying: > >'It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck' -- which is > >another way of saying, 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.' "
> >***"Our concern over a Sovietized Cuba 90 miles from Key West, for instance, > >must be equated with Russian concern over our missile bases surrounding > >them. It is proper that we should be deeply concerned, but we must be able > >to see their side of the coin -- and not let this concern turn into fear on > >either side."
> >***Playboy: On a practical level, how would you combat Communist expanion > >into such areas as Cuba, Laos and the emerging African nations? > >Sinatra: It strikes me as being so ridiculously simple: Stop worring about > >communism: just get rid of the conditions that nurture it."
> >***"Attending rallies sponsored by 110-percent anti-Communist cultists or > >donning white sheets and riding with the Klan -- the one that's spelled with > >a "K" -- isn't the answer. All I know is that a nation with our standard of > >living, with our Social Security system, TVA, farm parity, health plans and > >unemployment insurance can afford to address itself to the cancers of > >starvation, substandard housing, educational voids and second-class > >citizenship that still exist in many backsliding areas of our own country. > >When we've cleaned these blemishes, then we can go out with a clean > >conscience to see where else in the world we can help. Hunger is inexcusable > >in a world where grain rots in silos and butter turns rancid while being > >held for favorable commodity indices."
> FWIW, Sinatra's 1963 PLAYBOY interview has long been rumored to have > actually been authored by Reprise Records advertising executive Mike Shore > (cf. Will Friedwald, SINATRA! THE SONG IS YOU [New York: Scribner, 1995], > p. 478).
> Fortunately for rumor-mongering, Playboy tape-recorded their interviews, > and described their context at the beginning of each interview.
> Martin
Playboy "might" have been snookered in another 1963 interview. In the OCTOBER 1963 issue, there is a note regarding the interview with PM Nehru:
<quote>
Just before closing this section (the last to be printed) of the October issue, after the rest of the magazine had gone to press, we received word from the Indian Embassy in Washington that our interview with PM Nehru was not, in fact, the result of an exclusive, personal conversation with the head of the Indian state, but simply a gathering together of public pronouncements made by the Prime Minister in various speeches, statements, etc., over the past several years. The Nehru material was submitted to us by a well-regarded journalist-publisher who has previously conducted numerous similar interviews with famous personages all over the world: it was sold as an actual interview, recorded on tape, and the covering letters that so described the material also included photographs of the Prime Minister and journalist together. There was no reason to doubt its validity and we consequently published it in good faith as a personal interview. However, an official refutation from the Indian government must be respected, and since our attempts to reach the supposed interviewer for further clarification have proved unsuccessful, editorial integrity requires that we print this statement."
<quote off>
However the bonifides of the Sinatra interview seem solid. The following prologue appears before the actual Sinatra interview in Playboy's Feb 1963 issue:
<quote>
"Rightly refusing to waste his time with predictable small talk, Sinatra agreed to SIT DOWN with us only on the condition that we 'talk turkey, not trivia', that we attempt to reach the man behind the image, to elicit his deepest feelings and reflections on the things which move and motivate him as a human being. Reassuring HIM that this very aim is the basic premise and prerequisite of the Playboy interview we gladly agreed. We then spent an entire week with Sinatra as he ambled through the breakneck business schedule that has become his normal routine -- answering our questions between takes on the set of Come Blow Your Horn ...; in his Dual-Ghia en route home from the studio; during breaks at a Reprise recording session with Count Basie; in corridors heading to and from the summit meetings on upcoming movie-record night-club projects; even for an unexpected hour in his Beverly Hills home following the abortive Liston-Patterson fight, which Sinatra had arrnaged to pipe in on closed TV for a group of friends (including Dean Martin, Billy Wilder and LA Mayor Samuel W. Yorty), invited at $100 a seat earmarked for a favorite Sinatra charity."
> Dave Reitzes wrote: > >>From: "Peter Fokes" pfokesspampr...@rogers.com
> >>A few snippets from Sinatra's interview in Playboy in February 1963:
> >>***"Remember that leering, cursing lynch mob in Little Rock reviling a meek, > >>innocent 12-year-old Negro girl as she tried to enroll in public school? > >>Weren't they -- or most of them -- devout churchgoers? I detest the > >>two-faced who pretend liberality but are practiced bigots in their own mean > >>little spheres."
> >>***"If the press reports world news as they report about me, we're in > >>trouble."
> >>***"Anyway I asked Mike [Mike Romanoff] what would happen if a summit > >>meeting of all the leaders in every country in the world was called, > >>including Red China, at the U.N. Further suppose that each leader brings > >>with him his top aides: Kennedy brings Rusk, Krushchev brings Gromyko, Mao > >>brings Chou. All these cats are together in one room, then -- boom! Somebody > >>blows up the mother building. No more leaders. No more deputies. The > >>question I asked Mike, and the one I ask you, is: What would happen to the > >>world?
> >>Playboy: You tell us?
> >>Sinatra: I told Mike I thought it might be the only chance the world has for > >>survival. But Mike just shook his head and said, "Frank, you're very sick." > >>Maybe so. Until someone lights the fuse, however, I think that continuation > >>of the cold war prepararedness might be more effective to maintain the peace > >>than the dewey-eyed notion of total disarmament. I also wonder if 'total' > >>disarmament includes chemical and bacteriological weapons -- which, as you > >>know, can be just as lethal as nuclear weapons. Card players have a saying: > >>'It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck' -- which is > >>another way of saying, 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.' "
> >>***"Our concern over a Sovietized Cuba 90 miles from Key West, for instance, > >>must be equated with Russian concern over our missile bases surrounding > >>them. It is proper that we should be deeply concerned, but we must be able > >>to see their side of the coin -- and not let this concern turn into fear on > >>either side."
> >>***Playboy: On a practical level, how would you combat Communist expanion > >>into such areas as Cuba, Laos and the emerging African nations? > >>Sinatra: It strikes me as being so ridiculously simple: Stop worring about > >>communism: just get rid of the conditions that nurture it."
> >>***"Attending rallies sponsored by 110-percent anti-Communist cultists or > >>donning white sheets and riding with the Klan -- the one that's spelled with > >>a "K" -- isn't the answer. All I know is that a nation with our standard of > >>living, with our Social Security system, TVA, farm parity, health plans and > >>unemployment insurance can afford to address itself to the cancers of > >>starvation, substandard housing, educational voids and second-class > >>citizenship that still exist in many backsliding areas of our own country. > >>When we've cleaned these blemishes, then we can go out with a clean > >>conscience to see where else in the world we can help. Hunger is inexcusable > >>in a world where grain rots in silos and butter turns rancid while being > >>held for favorable commodity indices."
> > FWIW, Sinatra's 1963 PLAYBOY interview has long been rumored to have > > actually been authored by Reprise Records advertising executive Mike Shore > > (cf. Will Friedwald, SINATRA! THE SONG IS YOU [New York: Scribner, 1995], > > p. 478).
>dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote in message >> FWIW, Sinatra's 1963 PLAYBOY interview has long been rumored to have >> actually been authored by Reprise Records advertising executive Mike Shore >> (cf. Will Friedwald, SINATRA! THE SONG IS YOU [New York: Scribner, 1995], >> p. 478).
>Fortunately for rumor-mongering, Playboy tape-recorded their interviews, >and described their context at the beginning of each interview.
>Martin
Unfortunately for Martin, at least one of PLAYBOY's interviewers of that era, Alex Haley, has been shown to have plagiarized interview material from other sources; cf. Miles Davis biographer Jack Chambers on Haley's plagiarism in his September 1962 "Playboy Interview with Davis: Jack Chambers, MILESTONES (New York: Quill, 1985), pp. ix-x.
Now if Martin would just clean up some of the rumors for which he himself bears responsibility, such as his claim that a "new CIA document" links Clay Shaw to a CIA project called ZR/CLIFF . . .
> >dreit...@aol.com (Dave Reitzes) wrote in message > >> FWIW, Sinatra's 1963 PLAYBOY interview has long been rumored to have > >> actually been authored by Reprise Records advertising executive Mike Shore > >> (cf. Will Friedwald, SINATRA! THE SONG IS YOU [New York: Scribner, 1995], > >> p. 478).
> >[Jack] Ruby calls from the Ewing apartment; Los Angeles, > >HO 6-8211, for 1 minute (Mike Shore Reprise Records);
> Uh oh.
> > There other references to calls to Shore.
> >FWIW,
> >Jerry Shinley
Yes. He calls Mike Shore at the same number on Aug 22nd. "CR 4-0043, for 7 minutes from the Ewing apartment" (Aug 22); Beverly Hills BR >4-0043 for 7 minutes (Mike Shore, 109 Almont) (Aug 2).
> >Fortunately for rumor-mongering, Playboy tape-recorded their interviews, > >and described their context at the beginning of each interview.
> >Martin
> Unfortunately for Martin, at least one of PLAYBOY's interviewers of that > era, Alex Haley, has been shown to have plagiarized interview material > from other sources; cf. Miles Davis biographer Jack Chambers on Haley's > plagiarism in his September 1962 "Playboy Interview with Davis: Jack > Chambers, MILESTONES (New York: Quill, 1985), pp. ix-x.
However, it seems highly unlikely that Playboy would publish so many lies pertaining to the interview with Sinatra in the prologue. The interviewers said the interview was done over the course of a week in various locations.
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