Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next 30 minutes, while the kid napers were setting themselves up and closing in, Frank Sinatra's 19-year-old son ate a room-service chicken dinner. A professional singer himself for all of seven months, he was traveling with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, which was in the sixth day of a three-week stand at Harrah's Club in the Sierra Nevadas. The club is on a neon-lit casino strip called Stateline, a non-town that straddles the California-Nevada border along Lake Tahoe's south shore...
...Action. With him was a trumpet player named John Foss, 27, and in the overheated room, Sinatra was dressed only in a T shirt and shorts. There was a rap on the door. A young man with dark hair and a long face came in, saying that he had a package for the singer. He bent over, set the box down, and stood up waving a revolver at Sinatra and Foss. Then came an amateur touch. Risking life imprisonment, or death in the gas chamber if he should kill the boy, and obviously planning a ransom play that would involve...
After taping Foss's wrists and eyes, the kidnaper, who by this time had been joined by an accomplice, got Sinatra about two-thirds dressed-shoes but no socks, trousers and a topcoat but only the T shirt beneath. They ripped out the phone, took Sinatra outside and disappeared into a blustering snowstorm. It was Sunday...
...children were nearly all adults. He had sold his private plane several months ago, so he hired the first thing he could find: a twin-engined Beechcraft. But when he arrived at Tahoe, the blizzard was so thick that the plane was deflected to Reno. Switching to a car, Sinatra started up into the Sierras. But the storm stopped him again ("You couldn't see the hood of the car," said the driver), and he had to turn back...
With FBI encouragement, Sinatra set up a listening post in a sixth-floor suite in Reno's Mapes Hotel, while radio reports announced where he was. For 16 hours he sat by the telephone, smoking cigarette after cigarette and gulping coffee; his only food was a cup of soup...