Word: shor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Bob Hannegan took a back seat again (which as often as not turned out to be a seat at Toots Shor's Manhattan restaurant). This Roosevelt trip-perhaps the most crucial in his political career-had to be handled by professionals. New York's 47 electoral votes were at stake, and few men know the strategy of capturing those votes better than...
Frank Sinatra, teatiming at the White House at the invitation of Democratic Chairman Robert Hannegan (who also brought along Manhattan Restaurateur Toots Shor, an ex-bouncer, and Funnyman "Rags" Ragland, an ex-burlesque comic), was kidded by the President about "the art of how to make girls faint," and came away determined to buy radio time of his own to campaign for Term IV. Observed The Voice: "My fans are not all teenagers. . . . Besides, even the 15-year-olds can influence people...