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When I was a new critic/reporter on the music beat at Long Island's Newsday, then the largest and most influential suburban newspaper in the country, my editor noticed my schedule was quiet one August week. And Frank Sinatra was turning 65, which was old in those days! So he assigned me to spend a week at the NY Library of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, which is still there, and research and write an advance obituary appreciation of Frank Sinatra. It had newspaper clippings and microfilm go…
I lived in Astoria two blocks from that HS in the early 2010s. I remember kicking myself that Paul had performed so close to me and I had missed it (tho as I recall it was a total surprise, so everyone except those students missed it)
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