Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dock-walloper-with the police ever tagging his footsteps. Danny's first job was arranged by Grace's new husband, Mitsura ("Mits") Wakita, a warmhearted Japanese-American and longtime credit manager for a wholesale drug house. Danny worked in the cosmetics stockroom for $1.65 an hour, quit to find more pay in January 1965. In April, Danny was braced on a street corner by a drug addict who was also a paid police informer. By odd coincidence, the cops swooped down just as the addict shoved a bagful of barbiturates into Danny's hand. Blared Chicago...
...never seen. The pills were of a type not to be sold without prescription, and the Wakitas were booked for drug possession. By the time a judge dismissed the charges, Mits and his wife had been fired from their jobs, kicked out of their apartment, ordered to remove Grace's daughters from their school. When Danny argued entrapment and was found not guilty last June, Judge Walter Kowalski denounced the jury for "a travesty of justice...
...night last February, Mits had a flat tire while driving his family home after visiting Grace's relatives. As he got out to fix it, another car drew up and hovered nearby. When he opened the door to get back into his car, automatically turning on the inside lights, Mits became an easy target and was shot dead. Danny, who had lived with Mits and "loved him like a brother," was immediately pulled in for questioning by the police...
...Grace and Danny claim that they have been constantly threatened since the murder of her first husband. Whatever the connection between those threats and Mits's murder, the police have yet to find Mits's killer. Twice police have stopped and searched Danny's car while he was driving Grace and her children. Last month they stopped him again, found a pistol, arrested him and impounded his car. Facing trial next month, Danny groans: "I just hope that great court in Washington makes a new law greater than mine. Then maybe we'll be left alone...
...never the ideal teen-ager," Danny wryly recalls. But he has always been fiercely idealistic about marriage, and often brooded about his sister Grace's troubled marriage to Manuel Valtierra, a key punch operator who was once arrested for stabbing Grace more than a dozen times. Danny himself fell in love with a pretty Irish-German girl of 17, and proudly claims, "I never touched her till we were married." Today, Danny is a father, but his wife has divorced him and disappeared. He has yet to see his son, who was born while Danny was in Statesville Penitentiary...