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...smartest thing that Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan ever did was to drop his nightstick and pick up a shillelagh. Shillelagh on his shoulder, an Irish grin on his handsome face, and a fine, free-swinging Irish ballad on his tongue, Phil Regan has been packing them in at the nightclubs, and attracting the kind of admirers who can help a man when he wants a little help. One night last week, he had to do two shows in two different Chicago hotels, and to get between them had to race his long, grey convertible back & forth through Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: That Old Shillelagh | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...always like to see Harvard boys riding in boxears," he noted gleefully as he flourished his nightstick. "They have such hard heads. Just the thing to keep me in practice for the Florida trade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No More Pencils, No More Books: Cambridge Exodus Proceeds by Land, Sea and Air as Spring Recess Opens | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

...Broadway's Strictly Dishonorable, he was typed for all time as Patrolman Mulligan, ad-libbed two of the play's best lines. When Muriel Kirkland observed that she thought policemen never drank, Mac remarked, "It only seems like never," later made his exit promising to use his nightstick "only in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 20, 1944 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...nights, there are two Carmens, two Joes, two Cindy Lous.) The acting is remarkably ingratiating for performers who were dug up from nowhere and tossed upon a stage. One of the Carmens (Muriel Smith) used to clean film in Philadelphia, while the six-foot-five Husky Miller twirled a nightstick in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...eliminated the Baby Face Nelsons, John Dillingers, Pretty Boy Floyds, broke the kidnapping business of half a dozen years ago and blasted Public Enemies No. 1 as fast as they arose, returned to his spacious office at FBI headquarters. There a huge model of a cop's nightstick leans against the wall, a photograph of his mother, who died two years ago, rests on the desk and on a radio stands a framed sentiment, "The Penalty of Leadership," which says: "In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Policeman's Lot | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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