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- since the 1920s, the Whittier Hotel in Detroit, Michigan, has hosted Horace Dodge, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mae West, Frank Sinatra, and The Beatles?
- some of Frank Sinatra's recordings of the 1964 song "My Kind of Town" change the original lyrics to omit reference to the Union Stock Yard which closed in 1971?
- the Scottish post-prog and electronica band North Atlantic Oscillation joined a list of artists that includes The Flamingos, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald by covering the 1934 song "I Only Have Eyes for You" and releasing it on their 2009 debut EP?
- except for Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, Harry Goodwin photographed every single act that entered the Top 30 of the UK Singles Chart between 1964 and 1973?
- Frank Sinatra, Jr.'s kidnapping in 1963 led his father to habitually carry a roll of dimes?
- press agent Lee Solters had Pope John Paul II made an honorary Harlem Globetrotter, represented Frank Sinatra for decades and claimed to have known client Dolly Parton "since she was flat-chested"?
- Barry Wood, Frank Sinatra's predecessor on the radio program Your Hit Parade, was promoted as America's "sweater boy"?
- Clifford Grodd bought out the clothing store Paul Stuart from his father-in-law, and transformed it into a label worn by Fred Astaire, Mel Brooks, Cary Grant, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra?
- Gay Talese's seminal 1965 magazine feature "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" was written without Talese ever being allowed to interview Frank Sinatra?
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