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...scarlet dragoon's uniform, he preens before a mirror and loftily mouths stanzas from Byron. Playing the highborn gentleman, though fooling no one, Con charges over the countryside on a thoroughbred mare while reducing his daughter to a barroom slavey. He sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade...
Prominent among the doubters is Mike Royko, whose syndicated Daily News column is the city's chief journalistic export - and a favorite Madigan target. Madigan has pilloried the Daily News and its rivals for burying an account of the columnist's arrest last winter in a barroom brawl, an incident Madigan recounted in loving detail. The radio scold frequently delights in picking Royko's nits. The columnist last month reported that Mayor Bilandic, in firing Consumer Sales Commissioner Jane Byrne, had also fired her secretary, the mother of six children. The secretary, Madigan pointed out, was merely...
Whatever Hamill is trying to say about incest falls short of being at all comprehensive. He should have stuck with the fairly insightful thoughts on why Fallon likes to box, that he began with: The story revolves around an Irish kid from Brooklyn, who gets himself involved in a barroom brawl and winds up in jail. Jail turns out to do him a lot of good, because it is there that trainers discover Bobby's boxing talent (he isn't a good fighter yet, but he's got the instinck...), and launch him into training for the all-impressive boxing...
...heavy drinker by the age of 16 with a voracious appetite for undercooked meat and slightly overripe women, he gave every promise of going on to become a late-19th century rebel without a cause-one of those frontiersmen with no frontier whose energies slowly dissipate in an aimless barroom brawl with life...
...Foreman declares: "If six Mexicans beat up a policeman, it's murder, but if six policemen beat up a drunk Mexican and throw him into the river, it's a misdemeanor." Foreman is representing the family of Joe Campos Torres 23, whom police picked up in a barroom brawl, then beat senseless and tossed into the Buffalo Bayou. Police Chief B.G ("Pappy") Bond arrested one of the officers in the Torres murder but stoutly denies wrongdoing by his men in numerous other killings. Insists Dick DeGuerin, president of the local criminal-lawyers' association: "The mentality in this...