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the Glee Club of Demarest High School, and engaged in a profitable musical sideline as a student, his real, down-to-earth ambition was to become a newspaper man. He got a job, after school hours, working on the delivery truck of the Hudson Observer. He liked the newspaper business so much that he later quit school and went to work full-time as a copy boy. Intelli- gent, ambitious and energetic, the copy job was soon left behind when he took over as sports reporter. While in high school, Frank won trophies for swimming, basketball and track. He considers his triumphs as a swimmer as especially important to the formation of his character. As a child he dis- covered that he could go in the ocean without ex- periencing a choking terror. His favorite exercise, though, is boxing. Boxing came naturally for him, probably because of a fam- ily tradition. His father, whose Profession was fire fighting, was an outstanding boxer under the name of Marty O’Brien, and his uncle was the well-known Babe Segar. A lot of people have been fooled by Sinatra’s skinny frame. But his body is 125 pounds of hard, coordinated muscle that can move in light- ning-like motions with a lot of the old one-two punch behind it. Frank has retained his avid inter- est in sports, and today is one of the best-informed fans of the baseball world. And he also makes a most creditable showing on the bowling alleys. In high school Frankie also collected pop orches- Se a ee tral arrangements, which he rented to local bands and high school combos. The fee was modest, but the contractural arrangements included the serv- ices of one Frank Sinatra as the featured vocalist— at another modest fee. Later he expanded and purchased a public address system, which was rented along with arrangements and his services as a singer. Then he collected three fees! 2 4