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| apartment house where they lived and collected all the discarded empty pop bottles he could find. The turn-in money bought his wife her sandwich and pie. Not long after that an important occurrence took place in the life of Singer Sinatra. Frank, a voracious reader, has always had a great belief in Fate (he cites a John Galsworthy theme—that one accidental, unplanned move can completely change a man’s life). This is what happened. Mon- day night was his usual off-night from the Rustic Cabin, but one week the girl singer asked him, as a special favor, to take Tuesday off. So Frankie sang on Monday night—the hight band leader Harry James walked into the place, heard Sinatra and immediately signed him up for $75.00 a week, three times his current salary! DORSEY AND VOCALIST That was the first boost up the ladder to success. It wasn’t long before the next one came. The James 2,4 . band was playing in Los Angeles, and Tommy Dorsey heard the new singer, liked him and imme- diately offered him $150.00 a week—doubile his salary. Harry James advised Frankie to take the offer, because the Dorsey outfit could offer him more opportunities. At first, Frank appeared as 14 oi Ap ie mma ot one of the Pied Pipers vocal group, and later was given a featured soloist’s spot. Some of the old Dorsey records, with vocals by Frank Sinatra, are now collector's items, The war came along and Frank, although of draft age, was automatically classified as 4-F be. cause of a punctured ear drum. He was going great guns with Dorsey, his name appeared more often in the columns of the entertainment papers, and the crowds that showed up for their personal appearances were displaying more and more en- thusiasm for the slight young vocalist. In 1942 Sinatra started out on his own. He had a CBS radio show called Songs by Sinatra, Frankie cutting up with Jimmie Durante {the nese) and Garry Moore (the hair cut), lenin hiiieehamneliinesnieniaie aCe a