Word: bouncers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a flying trip to England after the Normandy landing, one of the first things he did was to read Faces in a Dusty Picture. This brusque, vivid novel about the Libyan campaign was written by a 35-year-old veteran named Gerald Kersh-in civilian life an author, bouncer, traveling salesman, debt collector and professional wrestler; in World War II a Hemingway-mustached Tommy in Britain's oldest (1650) regiment-of-the-line, the Coldstream Guards. Now Author Kersh has followed up his dusty Faces with a lusty tribute to his famous regiment. The volume combines two books...
Married. Lois De Fee, 25, 180-lb., towering (6 ft. 2 in.) Amazon, onetime nightclub bouncer, and Lieut. Hugh M. Roper, A.A.F., 23; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Annapolis...
Most of the rest of Cannery Row is given over to an account of Mack's party for Doc. But little anecdotes of Monterey life slip in between the chapters: the story of William, the bouncer at the brothel, who was high-hatted by Mack's gang (said Mack, "I hate a pimp") and disconsolately stuck an ice pick in his heart; the story of Mr. & Mrs. Malloy, who in 1935 moved into an abandoned boiler in a vacant lot on Cannery Row, and quarreled because Mrs. Malloy wanted curtains for the windows that weren't there...
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, briefly in Manhattan after months overseas, turned up in a Broadway night scene. Max Huddle, 30, dance-hall manager, ex-bouncer, 4-Fer, was holding his own against four soldiers who had tried to take his taxi, when, he swore, another taxi drew up and Colonel Roosevelt stepped out, stopped the fight, told everyone to "scram." Huddle, bruised and breathing hard, filed a complaint with the Army Provost Marshal against the G.I.s, called Roosevelt a "taxi-commando, [who] acted like he was God Almighty...
...taxis, pummels prostitutes, robs crooked gamblers, assaults swells in evening clothes-then suddenly discovers he is in love with still-innocent Jane. Jane runs away, hides-then suddenly discovers she loves Bill. For a while they are passionately happy together. But a blackmailer who knows that Bill killed the bouncer suddenly turns up, demands a pound a week and Jane's favors. Jane kills him. Bill gives a crooked skipper ?100 to smuggle Jane out of the country...