People: Fair Game

After his Mexican "vacation" fiasco with Cinemactress Ava Gardner, Crooner Frank Sinatra turned up in Reno, called reporters in to make his peace with the press and hand out a bit of news: he will sing in Nevada nightclubs for six weeks, then start his own divorce proceedings against wife Nancy. But somehow everyone was beginning to find the whole affair a little wearisome. Yawned the New York Daily News in a one-sentence editorial: "Anybody know of a bigger bore just now than Frank Sinatra?"

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