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SOURCE NOTES
6 “I haven’t much”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 127.
7 “Sinatra arrived”: Kelley, His Way, p. 127.
8 “an over-festive vacation”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 66.
9 “You get word”: Lyrics from “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” words and music by Irving Berlin (New York: Irving Berlin, 1946).
10 “Sinatra telephoned in”: Columbia Records Archive, Sony Music Corporation.
11 “Good evening, ladies”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 66.
12 “SINATRA’S STOOGERY”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 101.
13 “Bobby Burns phoned”: Kelley, His Way, p. 127.
14 “Called Sinatra for rehearsal”: Columbia Records Archive, Sony Music Corporation.
15 “Sinatra only worked part”: Ibid.
16 “many times”: “Sinatras Split; Frankie Turns to Lana Turner,” Chester (Pa.) Times, Oct. 7, 1946.
17 “It’s just a family”: “Sinatra ‘Hiding’ in Marital Rift,” Oakland Tribune, Oct. 7, 1946.
18 “He did not report”: Kelley, His Way, p. 127.
19 “Let me welcome you”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 115.
20 “The only thing”: Lana Turner, Lana, p. 42.
21 “I am not in love”: Kelley, His Way, p. 131.
22 “I think Frank has done his best”: Louella Parsons, Los Angeles Examiner, Oct. 7, 1946.
23 “left at 2:30 to appear”: Columbia Records Archive, Sony Music Corporation.
24 “NO CONSENT”: Kelley, His Way, p. 129.
25 “I won’t be surprised”: Barbas, First Lady of Hollywood, p. 269.
26 “SUGGEST YOU READ”: Kelley, His Way, p. 129.
27 “JUST CONTINUE TO PRINT”: Ibid., p. 130.
28 George Avakian remembers: George Avakian, in discussion with the author, Oct. 2006.
29 “was relatively tense”: Ibid.
30 “He used to call me ‘kid’ ”: Ibid.
31 “He did them very quickly”: Ibid.
32 “Hard work”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 100.
33 “You must be glad”: Ibid., p. 104.
34 “There can rarely have been”: Friedrich, City of Nets, p. 262.
CHAPTER 20
1. The Brooklyn gangster born Giuseppe Doto had thus renamed himself, in the belief that he was as handsome as the Greek god. He was not.
2. As opposed to Dean Martin, who was far more confident of his strength and masculinity than Sinatra, and had little use for glad-handers of every variety, especially mobsters. As a young man, Dino Crocetti had worked as a dealer in gambling joints along the Ohio River, and knew exactly which characters to avoid.
3. Peter J. Levinson told the author that in the mid-1960s, over the course of many conversations with Hank Sanicola—the two were working on a book that didn’t pan out—Sanicola said he had helped Sinatra pack a suitcase full of cash to take to Luciano in Havana.
4. Thirty years later, he himself would tell Pete Hamill, “It was one of the dumbest things I ever did” (Hamill, Why Sinatra Matters, p. 145).
SOURCE NOTES
5 “Well, Frankie and I”: Louella Parsons, Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald, Jan. 27, 1947.
6 “wanted Nancy to have”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 129.
7 “to protect personal funds”: Ibid.
8 “A freakish accident”: Robert Ruark, “He Remembers Lucky Luciano,” Winona (Minn.) Daily News, Feb. 25, 1962.
9 “Shame, Sinatra”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 108.
10 “Sinatra was here for four days”: Ibid.
11 “a good kid”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 90.
12 “Luciano was very”: Kelley, His Way, p. 133.
13 “In addition to Mr. Luciano”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 108.
14 “It was a pretty story”: Ibid.
15 “I was brought up”: Ibid., p. 109.
16 “the complete story”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 131.
17 “Picture me, skinny Frankie”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 110.
18 “WILL YOU BE”: Modern Screen, May 1947.
19 “She found a doctor”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 8.
20 “Don’t you ever”: Ibid., p. 9.
21 “Dad made a dramatic”: Ibid.
22 “This excellent and well-produced”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 115.
23 “known in the cafés”: Earl Wilson, “Frankie’s Fight,” Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder, April 18, 1947.
24 “shit heel”: Summers