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Frank Sinatra — Part 20
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6. over¥to Luciano by Rocce Fischetti, Other
of nis friends are dove addicts. In a raid on Lucieno's home by
the Italian police they collected, among cther things, a solid gold
cigarette case bearing tne inscription: 'Te my deal nal, Lucky, from
his friend, FRANK GINATRA.' According to newspaper accounts, less
than twe years ago SINATiA made a trip te Italy where it was
reported he openly attended Luciano's parties,
"You have here three wanton breaches of the law: Sex charge arrest
in wew Jersey. Illegal possession of a gun, even after having it
tekxen awey from him by the sherifl, a person of authority, after
which he continued to carry one. And complicity with criminals and
in crime. Today he still boasts on his radio program that; ‘'wost
of my friends are in oriscn,!
Nhy is this entertainer permitted to.have full rein in the
profession? The Government, the oress, and the radio are hard at
work trying to prosecute all these criminals, gangsters, and
racketeers. The radio has over the summer macnths given an outstandi:
public service ir this connection, even having an interview with
Moretti cn one pregram (the network thet will hire SINATRA again for
five years!) and all the leading publications are running lead
articles on drug addiction among the young and on Luciano and his
crimes. Yet nobody bothers to see that SINATRA comes in for his snar
in this nefarious matter. Frankly, we feel he is anything but the
sort of entertaincr to have before the teen~agers as a pattern to
follow to become successful. Of course, it's all right to have sex
orgies (the papers are full of them today), it's perfectly all right
to break the law and carry guns even after you have been anprehended
and werned against it, it's perfectly all right tc be close friends
with the top criminals of the country and to help them and have them
put you on the top where you receive a fantastic income. It's a
nice example for youth, isn't it? He breaks the law on three counts,
goes free; has all the wrong associations and people anplaud him,
carries a gun, so that's all right; aids criminals and that's all
right, teo. de comes out on top. Hollywood has erroneously
described him as ‘the symbol of underprivileged Anerican youth.'
Nothing- could be farther from the truth} He's synonymous with
criminals, crime, hoodlumism, gangsters, and his elmost daily
immorality is enough in itself without all the other more heinous
activities, ‘what has SINATRA gone free? We recd from time to time
of one of the entertainers in Hollywcod committing an offense for the
first time, not as bad as SINATRA's offenses, and an uproar is made
and he is arrested, fined and jailed, but SINATRA goes free. There
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