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Tuesday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week

February 23, 2016 by Miranda 261 Comments

Nine years before the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v Board of Education, Froebel High School in Gary, Indiana accepted 200 African-American students. Not all of the white kids were happy. A thousand angry teens banded together and protested the school’s decision by skipping school. And that’s when Frank Sinatra showed up. Earlier that year, Sinatra had starred in an … [Read more...] about Tuesday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week

Monday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week

February 22, 2016 by Miranda 220 Comments

How The Sands hotel secured The Rat Pack In 1960, an unlikely group of entertainers, all loosely gathered around Frank Sinatra, went to Las Vegas to shoot a movie and do two nightclub shows each evening, spending most of the hours in between at all-night parties. Billed, with intentional swagger, as "the Summit" (a reference to the coming conference of Eisenhower, de Gaulle, … [Read more...] about Monday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week

Sunday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week

February 21, 2016 by Miranda 190 Comments

Alright Woody! How bout I give you the whole dang group! LOL Yes, the infamous "Rat Pack" or "Summit" or "Clan" led by The Chairman of the Board himself - Ol Blue Eyes. First a little history because I always thought it was just this group that was named the aforementioned, actually The Rat Pack was founded and led by Humphrey Bogart: The Rat Pack was a group of actors … [Read more...] about Sunday Afternoon Thread: The Rat Pack Week