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...Unfortunate Milkman. Due to his connections with Mickey and Apples, Witness Genova worked steadily for years. But in 1947 Apples had a barroom fight with a milk truck driver and got his face badly chopped by a broken beer glass during the struggle. Genova was unwise enough to sympathize with his old pal, Apples. "This guy has got to go," Apples told him, "and I want somebody ... to take care of him." Genova refused...
Genova testified that he first heard of Bowers through John ("Apples") Applegate, an old pal from Sing Sing. Shortly thereafter a hood named Gregory the Bandit was mysteriously shot to death in a Twelfth Avenue barroom. Gregory was the pistol local's delegate. Mickey Bowers moved...
...Choreography in "Strike While It's Hot" is quite good, especially the barroom scene at the end of the first act and the Indian ballot in the second act. The production's scenery, however, was tiring. Only when a hotel frame was moved before the broad expanse of exaggerated desert did the main set lose its flat character. In contrast, design of the barroom set combined with the lighting in that scene sat off the ballot well...
...serving a 6-to-15-year term for manslaughter. Sentenced (in 1937) to 75 years in jail for his part in the Scottsboro case, Patterson escaped from an Alabama prison, fought off extradition attempts, but was sent to jail again in 1950 for stabbing a man in a barroom brawl...
...Angeles last week, another memory patient was traveling an even more difficult road. Melvin Eugene Hewitt, 28, injured in a barroom brawl last year, was saved by a quick-thinking doctor who massaged Hewitt's "still" heart for 15 minutes. But he may never recover from the brain damage he suffered. Now living at home with his mother - he has a two-year-old daughter, is separated from his wife - Hewitt lives the life, of a dull, 14-year-old boy. Unable to remember events of the present for more than a fleeting moment, he watches boxing...