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Gl tit LA 807 ly because he himse!* “hat he goes of risks rvpu- . ; ~ lar disapproval, Last March he made headlines by hiring Albert Maltz to write the screenplay for a planned Sinatra- produced film, The Execution of Private Slovik. Maltz is one of a group of writers known as the Hollywood Ten; he served a prison sentence for contempt of Con- gress after he had refused to discuss his Communist affiliations. It was no secret in Hollywood that the Ten, “officially” blacklisted by studios, had been -writing scripts under the table, so to speak, ever since they got out of jail. Sinatra may have felt thet it was more honest {his friends say he has a passion for stark honesty) to come out in the open with the hiring of Maltz, but many interpreted A Special Selection of Summer Fiction PLUS: Abolish Capital Punishment? California's Governor Brown Says Yes! _ Dina Merrill—The Rich Girl Who Made Good Cool Salad S Delightful Back-to-School Fashion Album Also; The Better Way, Beauty Diet for Teens, Shari Lewis, Hannah Lees See it all in August GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, out July 21 it as an insult to the public. Sinatra was subjected to an enormous ameunt of crit- icism, by newspaper editorial and from pulpit and lectern, and finally announced that he was dropping Maitz. Such a complete concession—even to such indignant and overwhelming public opinion as Sinatra faced in the Matiz * gituation—is so uncharacteristic of the Frank Sinatra of today that observers are inclined to the belief that some tre- mendous and unusual pressure must have been applied to Sinatra to make him give up his stand. He said, among other things in a statement explaining his decision, that his family had influenced him, (A bet- ter guess was that Senator John F. Ken- nedy’s father—and Clan member Peter Lawford’s father-in-lew—the former am- bassador to England, Joseph P. Kennedy, applied the pressure. The theory was that the elder Kennedy would have seen to it that Sinatre would have been con- pletely disassociated from the Kennedy ity of people. In the past Sinatra himself] | gity g zene .......cccccscccsceeeeeceel UE has made several gestures toward the im-| ] I ae provement of human relations. His short} , Stete .--.- 2+ ee oS cr Truman and for Adlai Stevenson, twice. Sinatra's friends like to rib him by ask- ing him whether he plans to become Secretary of Health, Education and Wel- fare if Kennedy is elected. . . ; matched the performer by his press agents, the cans Pe me firm of Henry Rogers-Warren Cowsn, , Inc. In Madison, Indiana, Sinatra, on location for Some Came Running, was riding in a bus past people who were lined up to see him. He reportedly kept up 8 running commentary on them that fat boy. Hi, you horrible bag.” All the while he kept beaming. Outside a bar named the Oasis, he flourished a glass in the air. “Qur people do not flaunt their drinking. . . . We like to think we're gentlemen,” one Madison resident said, Later Sinatra was accused of having abused « sixty-seven-year-old clerk in the motel in which he was staying because the clerk had become confused when rE or lnveciment needed! For full, j they could not hear. “Look at that ugly broad over there,” he allegedly said. “Hi, experience given « series of complicated orders for trea information pale hamburgers (members of the Clan are constantly sending out for sandwiches GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Dept. 760-4 |. izvas). [ - 280 W. S5th Se, N. Y. 19, MY. _ and pizzas) } Send mo complete detalls of your meney- MS AN UNWRITTEN—and ironclad—show-| 5 #4*/4E Sebscription plan 1 oS business law holds that jokes about race, coler, and religion are, no matter what their intent, offensive to the mejor-