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Ticket holders who had paid $20 to $500 to attend an Inaugural concert were disappointed when the emcee, Francis Albert Sinatra, failed to appear. But later in the evening, guests at a champagne breakfast at the Jockey Club in Washington's Fairfax Hotel witnessed a Sinatra performance that was-well, a performance...
Accompanied by Barbara Marx, the estranged wife of Zeppo Marx, Sinatra arrived with a glare for everyone present. Maxine Cheshire, the Washington Post society columnist, approached Barbara Marx in the hotel lobby and introduced herself. Sinatra exploded. "Get away from me, you scum. Go home and take a bath. I don't want to talk to you." He continued, "I'm getting out of here to get rid of the stench of Miss Cheshire." While about 30 people looked on, Sinatra moved across the lobby, addressing a passerby: "You know Miss Cheshire, don't you? That stench...
When she recovered, she hired Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams to file a million-dollar suit against the actor. "If Sinatra had attacked me as a reporter I would have taken it, but he attacked me as a woman," said Mrs. Cheshire, a mother of four. "I feel I owe it to my children to sue. I'm square enough that virtue means something...
...States," opened at the Kennedy Center. It was aimed at the nation's Governors-40 of whom showed up. To accommodate the almost 5,000 other guests-including Pat Nixon, daughter Julie, and Mamie Eisenhower-a 2˝hr, show ran simultaneously in two separate halls. Eminent emcees Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope scrambled on and off stages in an admirable attempt to provide equal time to all. Breaking out of his retirement once more, Sinatra came up singing Fly Me to the Moon, while Hope kept up patter about the security precautions. Sample: "I've never been frisked so many...
...former Premier Eisaku Sato has accepted an invitation and will probably rub shoulders with names from business like Henry Ford and Kimball C. Firestone, and show-business types such as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell. Comedian Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra will star at the entertainments to be held in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Other performances will range from the Philadelphia Orchestra, with Pianist Van Cliburn, to Soul Singer James Brown and Pat Boone...