People, Jun. 9, 1975

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If Frank Sinatra keeps doing things his way, he may soon have to begin his second retirement. Now completing a five-country singing tour through Europe, Frank found his blue eyes staring into empty seats in West Germany last week. Half the 10,000 seats in Munich's Olympia Hall were vacant for his first concert, and a second performance in Frankfurt fared almost as badly, causing Sinatra to cancel an appearance in Berlin and refund more than $85,000 to organizers of his West German tour. "Sinatra just is not part of the nostalgia wave now rolling over Germany," said one young music fan in Munich. "Now if you got Greta Garbo to sing in Munich or Berlin, the place would be packed and jumping."

Funnyman Flip Wilson might just be the biggest thing to hit Boley, Okla. (pop. 500) since the dust storms of the 1930s. When the town adopted the TV comedian as its honorary police chief last February, Wilson promised to contribute $10,000 for a new swimming pool. Last week he came to deliver. "We've got a $5,000 check for a police car," proclaimed Wilson during festivities for the town's 70th anniversary, "and now we're going to start working on $22,000 for a fire truck." Great, but what about the pool? "He wanted us to decide what we needed the most," explained Boley Mayor Sam Wilcox later. "A police car and fire truck seemed more important than a swimming pool."