Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negotiations. The first call came Monday at 6:50 p.m. An assured voice told him that his son was alive. The second call came the next morning, and Sinatra was allowed a couple of words with his son. Less than three hours later, the kidnapers called again and directed Sinatra to go to a Carson City gas station 30 miles away to receive another call. He went, was told that his son was in Los Angeles and that the hoods wanted him there...
...money between two school buses parked overnight near a service station. About 12:30 Wednesday morning the kidnapers picked up their prize of $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills-12,400 notes in all, wrapped in an 18-in.-square package-and about two hours later released young Sinatra at a San Diego Freeway exit...
They had reason to be. At week's end, barely 72 hours after young Sinatra had been released, the FBI had arrested three men, charged them with the kidnaping, and recovered all but $6,114.24 of the ransom...
...three accused snatchers were not the most professional in the business. One, Barry Keenan, 23, of Los Angeles, a stockbroker's son, had graduated in the same high school class as Nancy Sinatra, young Frank's sister. An unemployed salesman and divorced, he had been charged with petty theft in the past. The other two were equally smalltime. Joseph Amsler, 23, an abalone fisherman from Playa del Rey, had been pinched for a liquor-law violation, mumbled, when asked if his parents could provide $50,000 bail: "I don't think they would be interested." The third...
...spent two and a half years producing a faintly vulgar medley nearly three hours long. Even the film's finest scene is marred by excess: as a pathetically boyish American deserter is led before a firing squad in a vast snowy field, the sound track erupts with Frank Sinatra's dulcet warbling of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, followed by Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. The choice seems arbitrary, a victory cheaply won. Or does an audience really have to be elbowed black and blue to understand that war is a far cry from Christmas...