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...Department responded with 421 policemen, 20 policewomen, 20 patrol cars, two trucks. The excitement had scarcely died down two days later, when an 18-year-old boy stood up in the theater, threw an egg that smacke'd Sinatra squarely between the eyes. The egger, one Alexander Ivanovich Dorogokupetz, was mobbed by Sinatra's fans but rescued by police and ushers. Said Dorogokupetz: "I vowed to put an end to this monotony of two years of consecutive swooning. . . . I took aim and threw . . . it hit him . . . his mouth was open . . . I felt good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Showfolk | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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