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[VN VINCENT x ‘FLAHERTY Sinatra” Refuses to ‘Back Down FRANK SINATRA retnitids me of the pug little boy who won’t back down. He hired a Con munist and probably will let himself get stuck wit him at any cost. Frank has done a reprehensible } oa in sponsoring a subversive who would destroy erything Americans hold dear. Sinatra realizes he did the Wrong thing but, howso- er indefensible, come hell or high water, Sinatra won't ck down an inch. This sort of reasoning was drilled into Frank somewhere along the line, probably as a youngster in New Jersey. He thinks it shameful to holler “uncle” or admit to & a¢rious blunder. He would rather take a beating than apologize, Under the pounding of a bully he’d refuse to “take-it back.” And that is too bad in this case—too bad for Frank Sinatra, and too bad for the nation that makes Frank Sinatras possible.. I like Sinatra. I have known him quite a tew years. ‘He is tun to be around: He is-a@ nice guy In many, Ways. land ‘in many ways there is much goodness in him. Still ithere are other things which make you think about the va “own worst.enemy.” Jt is his personal. poison for’ Which there seems to be no. antidote. Frank has ‘his philosophies: and they ting with ain. lcerity. He champions: minorities, and’ that is commend- ‘able, thse ‘Davis ig -who happenes to bea Negro, is one of his closest.pals. Frank has career, Of course; Davis has tremendous talé dis agreat star in his own right; Sammy never. cf much help, but Sinatra is the kind who would militan ‘dhkmand that Sammy got all that was coming to Yeu can’t argue against ¢ . noe done much to. further. LE # wate mate COM TAINED HERE LY (18 gasygssir DATE DOe wy LA Hxaminer “far. 31, 1960 wood) oe