- IN his last year he did 150 concerts.
- WHEN he died in 1977 he had give away ALL the billion dollars
he had earned,mostly to charity.
- THE only European country he visited (except on military service)
was France.He stayed in the fabulous George V hotel in Paris.
- HE owned a U.S. wide chain of raquetball courts - it's like
a faster version of squash - and had one at his home.
- THE only non-U.S. concert he did was in Vancouver,Canada.