His home was built along a fairway at the Tamarisk Country Club, although he used to hang out with friends Jack Benny, Danny Kaye, Sid Caesar, and Milton Berle.
His neighbor was Frank Sinatra, who actually ended up marrying Zeppos first wife Barbara after their divorce, which was a product of Frank and Barbara's extra-marital affair.
Which is cool, but did you know that in 1941, Zeppo met an aircraft executive at the racetrack, who said: “We’re very shy of machine shops and machinists,” the Douglas Aircraft man confides, “and I hear you have your own shop.”
Before you know it, Zeppo is machining parts for DC-3s at his lathe in the family garage, and founds an aerospace manufacturing firm, Marman Products
He also invented a cardiac pulse rate monitor
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