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High, and low, lights of a struggling, promiscuous, non-conformist, troubled free-lance writer, singer, actor, producer and enfant terrible, beginning with his 1930's childhood; sleeping in hotel, bureau drawers; grade school days in Pennsylvania, Brooklyn and Manhattan, where he and his two brothers were hotel kids (32 Street); high school dropout; first jobs with the Film Daily and United Press; slinging hay bales on a Jersey dairy farm; philosophy; Pearl Harbor; life as an 18-year-old, World War II 4-F; First, unconsummated love while a Connecticut, aircraft inspector; U.S. Maritime Service Orientation instructor; discovering vaudeville and the big bands at the Paramount, Loew's State, the Strand, the Capitol (where he caught Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney at their peaks) and Radio City Music Hall and service in the army of occupation in Japan. [Frank Sinatra at the Paramount when Frank was 27] His Bohemian days in Philadelphia, working as a Good Humor truck driver (with gonorrhea at one point), for a non-scheduled airline; dabbling with a night club, singing career; two, failed marriages; living with three women (not simultaneously) out of wedlock; fathering five children, all of whom he lost because he couldn't support them; state hospitalization for depression in 1946; insulin, shock treatments; VA compensation and two wins in the 1952 Diamond Belts. There is sadness, humor, inspiration and courage in this account of an ordinary, Depression child, "dragged up" by his parents, who valiantly tries to win a jackpot with the lousy hand fate dealt him.

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• Full title: Quietly Flows My Desperation: Or My Back Against the Wall
• Author: Thomas Murphy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180
• EAN: 9781589097742
• ISBN: 1589097742
• ID: 12330010
• Publisher: CYBERREAD
• Weight: 213 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: November 2010

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