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Frank Sinatra, leaning against the stool, sniffling a bit from his cold, could not take his eyes off the Game Warden boots. Once, after gazing at them for a few moments, he turned away; but now he was focused on them again. The owner of the boots, who was just standing in them watching the pool game, was named Harlan Ellison, a writer who had just completed work on a screenplay, The Oscar.
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Sinatra made at least two trips to Havana to meet Luciano. One trip was over Christmas 1946. Sinatra performed on Christmas Eve at a party held in his honor by Luciano. This party came during a break in a meeting that decided the fate of Siegel, who was killed a few months later. The second trip, over a four-day weekend in February 1947 is documented in Sinatra’s FBI file. He traveled to Havana with Joseph and Rocco Fischetti.
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The pool scene, which dramatizes a situation where Sinatra and his hijackers fail in their attempt to sack the Queen Mary, went quickly and well. After Sinatra had been kept in the water shoulder-high for a few minutes, he said, "Let's move it, fellows -- it's cold in this water, and I've just gotten over one cold."
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After two years' absence, Sinatra returned to the concert stage on January 12, 1950, in Hartford, Connecticut. Sinatra's voice suffered and he experienced hemorrhaging of his vocal cords on stage at the Copacabana on April 26, 1950.
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During his hospital stay Sinatra thought he was so close to dying that he begged Barbara: "Pull the plug!" During his stay he was so mentally confused that he once asked "Where am I?"
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In 1963 Sinatra invested $55,000 in the Berkshire Downs Racetrack in western Massachusetts. He and Dean Martin were named directors of the track. Rumors abounded, and were often repeated in the FBI files, that Sinatra was a front for the real owners of the racetrack: Raymond Patriarca and Gaetano ''Three-finger Brown'' Lucchese. The track went bankrupt in 1965, but the deal came back to haunt Sinatra years later.
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