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Member of the Wedding. In Waukesha, Wis., ex-Sheriff Michael Lombard!, charged with going easy on Dominic Picciurro's saloon, testified that he hardly knew Picciurro, would as soon have arrested him as anyone, admitted on cross examination that he was best man at Picciurro's wedding...
...Gentile goes into the saloon...
...saloon And drinks there a small glass of wine...
...worked the city's political districts and, in 1938, went to the State Capitol in Albany. There he was a big wheel in amateur theatricals, developed a taste for Scotch and soda and an enduring reputation as a two-fisted drinking man in Matt McCaffrey's saloon (because of his ulcers, doctors now advise against soda, but Hagerty cheats for the forthright reason that "I don't like water"). He also earned a reputation as an industrious, thoroughly competent reporter. In 1940 he joined his father in covering Wendell Willkie's presidential campaign...
...glacier-gouged peninsula, at a tiny resort village called Thunder Bay. One midnight beautiful Laura Manion-who is described as vaguely resembling Marilyn Monroe-comes staggering up to the trailer she shares with her Army husband and mumbles through bruised lips that she has been raped and beaten by Saloon Keeper Barney Quill. Her husband, Lieut. Frederic Manion, stuffs a Luger in his pocket, marches into the saloon and coolly shoots Quill dead...