The Night Sinatra Turned the Tables; Basquiat’s Blazing Trail; Charles and Camilla’s Fairytale

September 02, 2024 The Night Sinatra Turned the Tables; Basquiat’s Blazing Trail; Charles and Camilla’s Fairytale A special delivery from the Vanity Fair Archive. View in your browser  | Update your preferences   In this week's VF Archive digest, we dive deep into a boarding school scandal, Frank Sinatra's origins, and how cutting-edge technology changed the sex scene. A Private School Affair One of America's most prestigious boarding schools, St. Paul's, had been hit by scandal after scandal: financial improprieties, the ouster of its highly paid rector, a hazing investigation, a drowning in its new $24 million fitness center, and allegations of sexual abuse by revered teachers. An alumnus returns to the 2,000-acre Concord, New Hampshire campus, to learn how hubris, stonewalling, and the information revolution divided—though never conquered—his alma mater. R E A D  M O R E » The Night Sinatra Happened As 1940 approached, a skinny, big-eared Italian American kid with a hotly seductive voice was aiming to topple Bing Crosby's cool supremacy and turn America read