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...barrel in which Harry Hope has set up his bar. The tormented residents of the bar cannot--we are told some dozen times--sink any lower. Each of them possesses nothing but a cherished, vain dream and the expectation of the semi-annual binge financed by the generous Hickey...
...Hickey comes bearing a new gospel--"beat the game of life" by trying to attain the consoling dream. Failure is sure, but the dream will lose its haunting power; failure will bring an end to torment and a perfect peace. The barflies find, however, that to abandon the dream is to die, and that Hickey's peace is the peace of death. The only way to play the game of life is against the usual, heavy odds. Harry Hope and his friends decide that Hickey is mad, and go back to the old life of torment and bad whiskey...
Weight Lifters. In Georgetown, Ky., P.S. Hickey, hauling watermelons, pulled his truck into a state weighing station, returned later on the tip-off of another driver and found six slobbering state employees stowing away part of his load...
...HICKEY Los Angeles...
PATRICK G. HICKEY Buenos Aires...