Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help free more Atlanta police to work on the murders. The city is offering a reward of $100,000 for information leading to a solution of the crimes. Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. has offered a benefit performance in March to help raise funds for the police. Said Frank Sinatra: "I'll be there...
MacShane's research included conversations with O'Hara's brothers, sisters, wives and more distant relatives. He lists hundreds of contacts in the acknowledgements, including Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., John McPhee, William Saroyan (apparently still kicking around), Frank Sinatra, John Cheever and John Updike. They all find their way into the narrative. O'Hara's employers--Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, The New Yorker, Random House and the Screenwriters Guild--allowed MacShane to dig through O'Hara's files...
Bunker asked last week. "Absurd," replied Sinatra...
...Sinatra has acknowledged acquaintanceships with several gangsters, including the late Lucky Luciano. But the singer denied having willingly posed backstage at the Westchester Premier Theater in Tarrytown, N.Y., in 1976 with several gangsters, including New York Mafia Boss Carlo Gambino. Explained Sinatra...
...behalf, Sinatra brought seven character witnesses, including Actors Kirk Douglas and Gregory Peck, but made no mention of another friend: President Ronald Reagan, for whom Sinatra helped raise some $500,000 in campaign donations and organized a preInauguration gala. Reagan has said of Sinatra's reported gangland ties: "We've heard those things about Frank for years, and we just hope none of them are true." The control board decided that there were "no substantive reasons why he shouldn't have a gaming license" and issued Sinatra a temporary one that may be made permanent Witness Sinatra...