ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, November 10, 1996 TAG: 9611110055
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
Sinatra out of hospital; rumors live
LOS ANGELES - Frank Sinatra, who was admitted to the hospital for treatment of a pinched nerve, was released Saturday amid reports of a more serious illness.
Sinatra's spokeswoman, Susan Reynolds, refused to comment on his ailment, saying only that his doctor ordered him released after eight days in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The 80-year-old singer was admitted Nov. 1 for what his spokeswoman and hospital officials said was treatment of a pinched nerve.
But on Friday, he asked that no more information be released about his health after several local television stations reported that he was stricken with pneumonia and heart failure. One described his hospital room as being like an intensive care unit.
On Friday, Cedars-Sinai spokesman Ron Wise characterized Sinatra as ``annoyed about the whole thing.''
Sinatra, who turns 81 on Dec. 12, was to be honored today in his hometown of Hoboken, N.J., with the unveiling of a sidewalk plaque.
- Associated Press
A wig is a wig is a wig is a wig
WASHINGTON - Toupee, or not toupee, that is the question.
The Federal Trade Commission announced an agreement Friday under which a New Jersey company promised to stop claiming its ``painless, non-surgical'' hair restoring process is not a wig.
InVisions Inc. of Mount Laurel, N.J., was promoting its ``procedure'' or ``process'' as a means of restoring hair, contending that it was not a wig or hairpiece, the FTC said. The product sold nationally.
Under the consent order, the company and its president, Stephen Fox, are prohibited from claiming that the product is not a hairpiece, wig or toupee and that the ``InVisions Process'' is maintenance-free.
- Associated Press
Briefly
*After four days of vote counting put incumbent Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth even further ahead, his Phoenix-area opponent finally conceded defeat Saturday. ``I came very close to unseating a member of Congress people said a year ago couldn't be touched,'' Democrat Steve Owens said.
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