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Frank Sinatra
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  • Two boys, one Spanish-looking in a red shirt, one Danish-looking in brown, stood at the juke box, talking about Frank Sinatra.†   (source)
  • I hesitate for a split second, long enough to place the tune—Frank Sinatra, "New York, New York"—and say a prayer of thanks that the Pugs aren't witness to my mom's impromptu performance.†   (source)
  • They are three-quarters show biz, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, drinking buddies from way back, and they're accompanied by a well-dressed man with a bulldog mug, one J. Edgar Hoover.†   (source)
  • Through Ben I met some extraordinary people—people including Liza Minnelli, Cleo Laine, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra and John Denver.†   (source)
  • And I'd been ready to throw it away, or at least bend it a bit, for a Frank Sinatra wanna-be who would have easily settled for Meghan from Ohio.†   (source)
  • If I ever do finish it, though, I give you my word of honor: there won't be a part for Frank Sinatra or John Wayne.†   (source)
  • Frank Sinatra and John Kennedy have shared many laughs, many drinks, and, as the FBI suggests, a woman or two.†   (source)
  • They were going to the Riviera nightclub in Fort Lee, the place where Frank Sinatra sometimes sang, where Martin and Lewis did their comedy act and Pupi Campo and his band played Latin music.†   (source)
  • "Frank Sinatra!" the old man cried; his son took the picture from him.†   (source)
  • Blitz pulled off his Frank Sinatra hat and punched right through it.†   (source)
  • Welcome to warrior paradise, where you can listen to Frank Sinatra in Norwegian FOREVER!†   (source)
  • Cordelia likes June Allyson, but she also likes Frank Sinatra and Betty Hutton.†   (source)
  • Frank Sinatra is The Singing Marshmallow, Betty Hutton is The Human Grindstone.†   (source)
  • The Maasdam docks in Hoboken, New Jersey—Frank Sinatra's hometown—on June 13, 1962.†   (source)
  • He stuffed a Latin-English dictionary into his saddlebag while the Frank Sinatra music oozed from his boom box.†   (source)
  • Later, it was a kind of children's playroom, the room where my mother had played the old Victrola, where she had sung along with Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.†   (source)
  • They were strange antiques to him, like his mom's turntable or his teacher Chiron's Frank Sinatra cassette tapes.†   (source)
  • The young Frank Sinatra again.†   (source)
  • No, wait—she remembers—Frank Sinatra's opening at the Sands, where they celebrated Rusty's sixty-fifth birthday.†   (source)
  • 'You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men.†   (source)
  • The dwarf was as dapper as always in a walnut colored three-piece suit that matched his skin tone, a bow tie as black as his beard, and a Frank Sinatra-style hat that somehow pulled the whole look together.†   (source)
  • He stopped to chat with Frank Sinatra and his young actress wife, a nymph in a boy's haircut and a butterfly mask.†   (source)
  • Her three marriages aren't socially acceptable in the Kennedys' Catholic world, nor is her affair with Frank Sinatra.†   (source)
  • Frank Sinatra appears, a disembodied voice, sliding around on the tune like someone slipping on a muddy sidewalk.†   (source)
  • The president has moved on, putting as much distance between himself and Marilyn as he did between himself and Frank Sinatra.†   (source)
  • Frank Sinatra became a Republican in the years after John Kennedy's Palm Springs snub and was a well-known supporter of President Ronald Reagan.†   (source)
  • Or it might have started that October night in 1962 when JFK severed his ties with Sam Giancana, Frank Sinatra, and the Mafia, then stood back and did nothing as his brother Bobby zealously prosecuted organized crime.†   (source)
  • In fact, Hoover has years of files documenting the close relationship between Sinatra, the Kennedys, and high-profile members of the Mafia such as Giancana—who wears a sapphire pinkie ring given to him by none other than Frank Sinatra.†   (source)
  • He knows he has offended good friend and longtime supporter Frank Sinatra by canceling his plans to spend the weekend at Sinatra's house and staying at the home of Crosby, a Republican, of all things—but the president will deal with that symbolism later.†   (source)
  • In early 1962, as President Kennedy's visit to Palm Springs is being planned, a Justice Department investigation into organized crime reveals that singer Frank Sinatra is deeply involved with the Mafia.†   (source)
  • Her amber eyes sparkle with excitement; she is not showing a hint of fatigue despite having stayed up until 4:00 A.M. The booze flowed freely at preinaugural celebrations thrown by the likes of Frank Sinatra and Leonard Bernstein.†   (source)
  • The famous entertainers attending the previous night's parties were promised prime seats for this pivotal moment in American history, but owing to the cold and a 100-proof celebration that stretched into the wee small hours, singer Frank Sinatra, actor Peter Lawford, and composer Leonard Bernstein—along with a host of others—opted to sleep late and watch the event on television.†   (source)
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