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Article: SINATRA - OTHER THAN HIS WAY; IN LATEST PRE-POSTHUMOUS TOME, OL' BLUE EYES IS OFFERED AS COMPLEX, COMPELLING PERSONALITY.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- January 6, 1998
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Byline: Reed Johnson Daily News Staff Writer
Having spent his formative years in posh prep schools and privileged circles, John Lahr entered his late teens in serious need of a bad influence.
He found one in a hard-drinking Italian-American lounge poet, an elegant roughneck who always seemed to know just how a fella oughta cock his hat and knot his paisley bow tie.
Of course, Frank Sinatra also knew how to carry a tune. But according to Lahr, that singular talent wasn't what made the Hoboken, N.J., crooner an idol to millions of young men seeking to transcend the arid conformity of Eisenhower's America.
``It was the raincoat over the ...
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