His Way_ The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra - Kitty Kelley [308]
CHAPTER 2
The author obtained background information on Frank Sinatra’s family from interviews with Rosalie Garavante Blumberg, Rose Bucino Carrier on February 18, June 13, and August 1, 1983, and August 4, 1984, Doris Corrado, Tony Macagnano on February 18, 1983, Adam Sciaria on February 16, 1983, Bob Anthony on January 17, 1983, Kathryn Buhan on January 24, 1983, Joan Crocco Schook on January 24, 25, and February 16, 1983, Joe Romano on January 21, 1983, and Agnes Carney Hannigan on January 25, February 18, and March 11, 1983.
In addition, the author consulted records in the Hudson County Courthouse, the Hoboken Fire Department, and articles published in magazines such as the Jersey Journal, Look, Esquire, and Photoplay.
CHAPTER 3
Material in this chapter comes primarily from the many interviews with the Sinatras’ friends and neighbors in Hoboken, among them Tony Macagnano, Agnes Hannigan, Doris Corrado, Rose Carrier, Anna Spatolla Sinatra, and Frank Garrick. In addition, the author interviewed Nick Sevano on seventeen occasions in June and August 1983, March to September 1984, and in January 1985.
CHAPTER 4
Much of the material concerning the beginning of Sinatra’s career was obtained from interviews with Fred “Tamby” Tamburro on February 7, 1983, Don Milo on January 22 and February 15, 1983, Tony “Skelly” Petrocelli on January 21, 1983, Marian Brush Schreiber on January 23 and 25 and February 20 and 28, 1983, Frank Capone Cipriello on February 16, 1983, Adeline Yacinda on March 10, 1983, and Sam Lefaso on February 21 and August 21 and 22, 1984. Among the other material consulted by the author were news articles in the New York Journal-American, New York Post, the New Jersey Monthly, Bandleader, and Look. The author also read Beyond the Melting Pot, Glazer, Nathan, and Moynihan, Daniel P., Cambridge, Mass.: The M.I.T. Press, 1963; Barzini, Luigi, The Italians, New York: Atheneum, 1981; and Tony Sciacca’s book, Sinatra, New York: Pinnacle Books, 1976.
Information in this chapter on other aspects of this period in Sinatra’s life was obtained from, among other places, records of the Hudson County Courthouse, other personal interviews, and news articles.
CHAPTER 5
Much of the material in this chapter comes from some of Sinatra’s early associates, either in their own published memories or in personal interviews with the author. Among these are Simon, George T., The Big Bands, New York: Schirmer Books, 1981; Haines, Connie, For Once in My Life, New York: Warner Books, 1976; Herb Sanford’s Tommy and Jimmy: The Dorsey Years, New York: Arlington House, 1972; Sammy Cahn’s I Should Care: The Sammy Cahn Story, New York: Arbor House, 1974; and articles in the New York Post, New York Daily News, American Mercury, Hollywood Citizen News, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and the Chicago Sun-Times. The author also interviewed Nick Sevano, Herb Caen, on March 23, 1984, Al Algiro, Sammy Cahn on July 7, 1983, Rita Marrit on April 7, 11, and 18, 1984, Mary Lou Watts on July 12, 1984, Arthur Michaud on March 11, 1984, and N. Joseph Ross on October 2, 1984. Two previous books on Sinatra, Arnold Shaw’s Sinatra, London: W.H. Allen, 1968, and Robin Douglas Home’s Sinatra, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962, as well as numerous newspaper interviews with Sinatra were also used. In addition, the author also examined arrest records in the Hudson County Courthouse.
CHAPTER 6
Among the sources consulted by the author were articles in the Saturday Evening Post, New York Post, PM, Look, New York Daily News, and the New York Journal-American as well as several books and personal interviews.
In George Burns’s book, Dr. Burns’ Prescription for Happiness, New York: G.P. Putnam 6c Sons, 1984, George Burns recounts that he once offered Sinatra $250 to sing on his radio show. He says, “I was about to sign him when I learned I could get an act called the Three Smoothies for the same money. Well, I wasn’t born yesterday. If I could get three people for the same money, what would I want with that skinny kid? So I took