Word: pilgrimate
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...motion picture theatres line these eight blocks, including three skin flick parlors named, in patriotic Bostonian fashion, the Mayflower, the Pilgrim, and the State...
...muttered it again, "one word, it means two things." Grogan is an interesting man. Every Sunday morning he goes to early Mass at the Arch Street Shrine downtown, then he buys the Sunday papers and goes to the Statler-Hilton Hungry Pilgrim Restaurant for breakfast. He claims that one Sunday the papers were so big that he had to stay for lunch at the Statler before he could finish the papers. On Sunday afternoons he goes up to the Boston Public Library in Copley Square and reads...
...last thing Gog discovers is his conscience, a capacity to make choices for the first time. Ironically, it does him no good. The book ends with Pilgrim Gog, like Bunyan's Mr. Facing-bothways, approaching a fork in the road-or history-on his weary way out of London. And "he does not know which...
...Moonlighting. Houston's vigilante force was hired by Guy Robertson, president of the Pilgrim Dry Cleaning and Laundry Co., whose 102 city branches were subjected to 20 stickups in 1966 and 33 so far this year. "I can't find people to work in my stores," he complains, "because they're scared someone's going to stick a gun in their bellies." Desperate, Robertson last month contracted with the Clyde Wilson detective agency to supply a posse of private guards toting twelve-gauge shotguns loaded with No. 1 buckshot. Two other dry cleaning-laundry chains bought...
...days after the stakeouts began in the rear of Pilgrim stores and parked cars near by, the story made headlines in the Houston papers. Then Police Chief Herman Short claimed he had heard a rumor to the effect that there would be a $1,000 bounty for each hijacker killed. While Mayor Louie Welch said he had "no objection" to the idea of the squads, Short ordered his men not to moonlight for Wilson-though they may still take such part-time jobs as saloon bouncers. "Houston police," Short declared, "do not hire out as executioners for anybody...