Jack Lawrence wrote hit songs for Frank Sinatra and others

By Richard Severo / The Bulletin
March 19, 2009

Jack Lawrence, a reluctant podiatrist who chose to do what he had always wanted to do as a kid in early-20th-century Brooklyn, write lyrics for songs (many of which became hits), died Sunday in Danbury, Conn. He was 96 and lived in West Redding, Conn.

The cause was renal failure and....

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