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I could be extrapolating.

http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1089325,00.html
"A drink never hurt nobody. You're not drunk if you can lay on the floor without holding on."

Dean Martin, the Copa Room, the Sands Hotel, 1963

The Rat Pack came undone in 1967, when Sinatra broke his contract with the Sands over a dispute about his line of credit at the casino.

Martin -- always a man with his own mind -- chose not to follow the Leader.

When Davis returned to Vegas in the late '60s following a stint in New York and London with the musical "Golden Boy," he also elected to say bye-bye to the Sands, the onetime Rat Pack headquarters.

Bishop would turn his attention to his late-night talk show, after the successful run of his sitcom, "The Joey Bishop Show."

Lawford would be ex-communicated by Sinatra after the singer was snubbed by Lawford's brother-in-law, the president, by choosing to stay at the Palm Springs home of Bing Crosby, a Republican, rather than at the compound of Sinatra, a lifelong Democrat. In the spring of 1962, JFK's brother, Robert, then the Attorney General, persuaded the president to dump Sinatra because of the singer's friendships with organized-crime figures, even though Sinatra had been asked to use his influence to secure the labor unions' endorsement in the 1960 presidential election.

President Kennedy himself would be shot dead by a Dallas sniper in 1963; besides plunging the nation into grief, the event marked the end of an age of innocence and set the stage for a new era of entertainment dominated by The Beatles and other British rock groups.

Lawford died in 1984.