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Another biographer hated by Robert was Ward Hill Lamon, also a Lincoln law partner and later his bodyguard. Lamon was a big, good-natured brawler, whose "office was conveniently located over a saloon, the remainder of the second floor of the building being occupied by a house of assignation...
...hero, "Honest Gus" Burgoyne, was born over a saloon and "christened ... in honor of two men, either of whom might have been his father." As a small-town reporter, he learned how to shake down politicians; as city editor, he gained the confidence of the town's financial wizard, then bedded down in the bovine arms of the wizard's only daughter, Flora. "Brilliant things coruscated about her face and hair: flashing dollar signs...
Though it was only necessary to avoid Broadway to avoid the Legion's muscular humor, many a New Yorker was less than charmed by the spectacle of baying, middle-aged men cavorting through the streets. The New York Post's "Saloon Editor" Earl Wilson predicted: "New York will never tolerate the American Legion again." A World War II combat infantryman wrote a letter to the New York Daily News: "A warning to any Legion clown who approaches me: you must have paid plenty for those store teeth, Pop. . . . No sense getting them all mashed...
...Fall River, which ceased operations in 1937. Things of grandeur in their prime, in their latter days the old boats still aroused the affectionate exasperation of a large public. One frequent passenger cracked that the Priscilla was held together by the strip of red carpet in her main saloon...
...obtuse," wrote Peg, "so I assume that this refers to some news [Sinatra's meeting with Panderer Lucky Luciano] which deviated from the laudatory and purposely rapturous trash which had become standard Sinatra publicity as turned in by the saloon, movie, radio and gambling house journalists...