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TIL John Wayne, after some phone complaints, went down and told Frank Sinatra to end a party held in the suite directly below his own. A bodyguard confronted him, Wayne looked at him & turned as if to leave, then backhanded him and smashed a chair over his head. The noise stopped.

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