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As you put it, “Math murders me.” Although you love music, in your practical hardy neighborhood, it hasn’t occurred to you that music could be a man’s livelihood. You early acquire the nickname of “Angles” at Demarest High — and with some justification. Whatever the problem, you have an idea for an “angle”— and a quick wit and a keen blue eye for calculating the score. Athletics seem to be the best angle to gain wider popularity. When the football coach looks askance at your weight, you make star forward on the basketball team. You win trophies in swimming, you sing with the school glee club and the band. And here, too, you discover an angle that can be worked easily. By borrowing a few dollars from your dad, you invest in some musical arrangements and in a public-address system and amplifying horn. You book bands for clubs and for school' dances, you rent your P.A. system to them, and go along as singer — for a small additional fee. At sixteen, however, there’s one engagement you haven’t been able to angle yet. Visiting your aunt at the seashore at Long Branch, New Jersey, you can’t negotiate a date with pretty dark-eyed Nancy Barbato, daughter of a Jersey City building contractor, whose summer home is just across the street. You strum a mean ukulele on the beach, but no matter how loud you strum or how musically you croon, she isn’t impressed. One day, however, you stroll casually by her house when she’s sitting on the porch, giving her sister a manicure, and you manage a rakish, “Why don’t you fix mine?” and she agrees. From now on, you’re a frequent and a welcome visitor in the Barbatos’ summer place and in their comfortable old three-story brownstone Jersey City home. An only, and sometimes lonely kid, you welcome the warmth and camaraderie of the seven Barbato children. And you are an instant hit with Mom Barbato, who’s always trying to fatten you up— and save back a choice steak for you. Her daughter Tina (for whom your youngest is named, who is today Mrs. Ivan Maclear, interior decorator and proprietress of the “Toluca Den” in North Hollywood), can remember only too well when the steaks were seldom there. “Frank was like an eighth child to Mother. ‘Ask Frank if he’s hungry,’ was her standard greeting whenever he called. And he usually was. He was quite an actor too, even then. I remember how Frank and some of the other kids in the gang would take a stand on the balcony of the house and make like Mussolini or Hitler, ridiculing the dictators — while some of the rest of us tossed tomatoes at them. What hams.” These are the busy young years. Record sessions, line parties at the theatre, strumming ukuleles and toasting marshmallows around a driftwood fire on the beach . . . and you, Frank Sinatra, have no indication of just how busy your future will be. In 1935 you leave Demarest High, and you’re variously employed. You work for the circulation department of the Jersey Observer, you cub in the sports department and you decide to be a newspaperman— undiscouraged even when your thousands of words about a school ball game conout, “Demarest Beats Kalamazoo — 10Then one balmy romantic evening y and Nancy Barbato take in a movie — a Bing Crosby changes your mind and yc whole future. There in the darkness f< the theatre, yours becomes a determinli dream. Thousands listen to Bing’s hapr beat and dream of a singing career, 1 1 yours is the courage to chase — and call that rainbow — and make it your own. i You haunt the dances and theatres na;; bands play. You listen for hours at a ti ; to Bing’s records and to Tommy Dorses trombone. Your whole life is set to muc now — to phrasing and to a tone. You > up a special radio headphone for yir: bed and you listen to bands and sings until the early morning hours. You ;Wi alyze why one singer personally sends jx and another does not. To you it all sees to add up to sincerity. The singer you 1 e — puts his whole heart into song. Your whole heart is there too, ;J your aim is high. From the first notyou’re singing for the stars. At NBC in New York, another Sina nj Ray Sinatra, musical conductor at ■ fabulous Sands Hotel in Las Vegas tod 7, gets a letter from you. . . . “I’d been doing a lot of radio am I was doing a show called, ‘The Girl N:t Door,’ starring Agnes Moorehead, whe I got the letter with Frank’s picture '<A closed,” Ray Sinatra says today. “HewaniA to know whether we might be related, it mentioned he wanted to be a singer, id asked if I would listen to him. Since th Sinatra families had come from Italj I checked with my father and discover we were cousins. I arranged an audiau for him and had my producer and a m agency people there. It was rough at 1st time, even with contacts, for a kid to et? any kind of a break in radio. But I 1ways thought he would make it. He id a warm intimate quality that was \*y! good, and a way of speaking a lyric id making it mean something — which w singers were doing then. We kept intouch during the months, and when Fnk got a guest spot on the Fred Allen ‘Ip la Show,’ he called and inquired whethi I would mind if he mentioned he was iy cousin. He seemed to think it would Up. ‘Go ahead,’ I said, ‘after all — we ; e.’ Following the show, I got a call from I;d Allen and from a number of others, aslig whether I’d heard the broadcast. ‘That id who said he was your cousin.’ Frank id I have laughed ever since about the ‘cri y’ unknown they thought was usurping ry name.” Within a few years, your cousin ay Sinatra will be conducting for a “C nmand Performance” show, starring you ad Gene Kelly and Danny Kaye — and it ill be raining Sinatras at the Sands H el You get your first break professior ly when you audition on the “Major Boes Amateur Hour” show. You win, sinag “Night and Day,” and that becomes ;ur lucky song. Since there are also t ee winning instrumentalists from your hne town, you’re booked out as one unit ad billed as “The Hoboken Four.” You ait the unit on the West Coast; you’re he esick and determined to make the grac in radio. Back home, you sing for dishes oi oi free — on the chance somebody who an mean something to your future may ne in. You are singing, and literally, f a song. And on five local stations yet. ou join a boy-and-a-girl sweetheart-in ng show on Station wnew, and the ambi us girl’s voice drips of magnolia bios: nas sufficiently to antagonize a boy m Joisey-side. But let Dinah Shore tell i