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...PINKERTON STORY (366 pp.)-James D. Horan & Howard Swiggett-Putnam...
...politicos thought differently, and bluntly told him so on election night. "The Democratic organization did it for you, Mr. Mayor," cried out beefy Al Horan, Cook County committeeman and bailiff of the municipal court, as Kennelly was busy taking bows. "You can thank the party. I gave you 20,000 votes this afternoon in the 29th Ward. The West Side did it, Mr. Mayor. . . Where's Arvey?" Bald little Jake Arvey, until recently boss of the Cook County machine, pushed forward. Cried Horan: "Here's the greatest little Democrat in Chicago...
...like to break it up, come back to what I have written as something new and fresh." He does not have to worry about neighbors overhearing him at work. He and his partners in the eight-room Mt. Kisco place, who include Composer Sam Barber and Poet Robert Horan, now own 70 acres of hilly, wooded land surrounding the house...
...flocked to buy that in 1944 the Vrilium Products Co. was formed to manufacture and sell more Magic Spikes. Former Mayor Ed Kelly wore one to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, and credited the healing of a bone abscess to its power. Other wearers included Municipal Court Bailiff Al Horan and Illinois State Senator William J. Connors. Exact sales figures on the Magic Spike are unknown. Osteopath Raymond Kistler of Wyandotte, Mich, admitted that he bought 150 at around $150 apiece, resold them...
...antidote to grumpy Jesse's grim career. Author Horan fills out his last hundred pages with the story of another Pinkerton-pestered train robber, jovial Butch Cassidy, whose fun-loving Wild Bunch operated out of Hole in the Wall, Wyo. in the 1890s. Author Horan thinks Butch's story is "more colorful and daring," but most readers will disagree. Even debunked, Jesse James is still the feature attraction in any Wild West show...