Ticket holders who had paid $20 to $500 to attend an Inaugural concert were disappointed when the emcee, Francis Albert Sinatra, failed to appear. But later in the evening, guests at a champagne breakfast at the Jockey Club in Washington's Fairfax Hotel witnessed a Sinatra performance that waswell, a performance.
Accompanied by Barbara Marx, the estranged wife of Zeppo Marx, Sinatra arrived with a glare for everyone present. Maxine Cheshire, the Washington Post society columnist, approached Barbara Marx in the hotel lobby and introduced herself. Sinatra exploded. "Get away from me, you...
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