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Just learning: Sinatra, as a young priest, with Fred MacMurray in 1948's 'The Miracle of the Bells,' in which he admits his acting was 'awful.' Film is now on TV. Sinatra has just finished “Guys and Dolls” for Sam Goldwyn, is set for “The Man with the Golden Arm.” If The Voice keeps this up, he’ll have one himself, elbow-deep in a safe deposit box. Sinatra has twice announced plans for a TV film series, one to have been based on Las Vegas, the other dealing with the return of a man to his boy¬ hood home. Both have been shelved. “Las Vegas doesn’t need it,” he says laconically, “and I just don’t have time for the other one. I don’t have time for anything any more. I’m up to my—well, I’m busy.” Sinatra gets a kick out of the cur¬ rent rebirth of a 1948 picture he made, “The Miracle of the Bells,” which is now making the Late, Late Show rounds on TV. In it, he plays a young priest, walking through the role with all the grace and animation of a wooden Indian. “Pretty awful, wasn’t it?” he admits cheerfully. Yet, just five years later he won an Academy Award as the year’s best supporting actor in “From Here to Eternity.” “Takes a guy that long to learn how to act,” he explains briefly. “You gotta keep watching all the other guys and pretty soon you absorb enough of it or it just rubs off on you or something. Anyway, you learn.” Always an individualist, with his own ideas as to the nature of things in general and society in particular, Sinatra still does not enjoy what might be called a good press. He has his own private blackhst of news¬ papermen and columnists whom he flatly refuses to see, but he can be reasonably civil to those he figures won’t put a knife in his back. Such things, however, do not seem to bother Sinatra in the slightest. “Life is great, just great,” he says, almost enthusiastically. “In fact, it couldn’t be better .”—Dan Jenkins