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...faithfully turned up at the Democratic political meetings, and assisted at a lot of neighborhood births. In a few years she was a power in her part of town, and in 1909 Mayor Griffin made her district leader. In 1926 Mayor Bernard L. McFeeley, the political boss of Hoboken for 30 years, appointed her husband to a captaincy in the fire department...
...Frankie made the least of them. When the green-eyed little monsters mobbed him, Frankie fought foot and fang, and won their respect. Moreover, those he could not beat he could buy. In short, Frankie soon found himself with a gang at his back, and a gang in Hoboken had to be kept busy...
Pretty soon he won a Major Bowes contest and landed a 39-week contract as lead singer in a quartet called "The Hoboken Four." Six months later, Sinatra was back in Hoboken, airing his talents on 18 local sustaining programs every week for only 70? a week carfare. He also sang in the Rustic Cabin, a roadhouse not far from Hoboken, where he waited table too, and "practically swept the floor," for $15 a week. And there it was, in 1939, that Frank Sinatra got his break...
...James heard Frank sing, and took him on as a featured vocalist. Six months later the great Tommy Dorsey himself bought Frank away from Harry at the princely price of $110 a week. Two years with the Dorsey band smoothed a lot of rough edges off the kid from Hoboken, and raised at the same time some alarmingly sensual yet sensationally effective bumps on his singing style...
...these goings-on were naturally not calculated to please Mrs. Nancy Sinatra, the pretty girl from Hoboken whom Frank had married back in the Rustic Cabin days, and with whom he has three children-Nancy, 15, Frankie, 11, and Christina, 7. But somehow the Sinatras managed to keep the home fires sputtering along-until Frank one day met up with Ava Gardner...