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Helen! Come in here and have a drink! There's a good girl. Mitch, don't pay a moment's notice, he tells me. That's going be bloody difficult on a broken coccyx. I think she's broken her coccyx! We'll have to put her in the Land Rover and drive her 26 miles across that rocky mountain road to Tralee. Mitch! Helen Howard has measured her length in the garden, and is passed out cold! We carry her in, put her on the sofa, and fan her back to witness. One night Trevor is in the kitchen making love to a bottle of Chivas Regal and Harold steps out to take a breath of fresh air. "I like to have Trevor with me on a picture," Mitchum said, "because all I have to do is glom him, and I know I'm okay. Trevor Howard was co-starring in the film. "Remember 'Thunder Road,' when you flew into that transformer? What a way to go!" We had accumulated Eugene, John's younger brother, who had fled to London and the brickmason's trade after some trouble at home, but now had returned, the prodigal son. They sang along: My heart goes where the wild goose goes. Robert Mitchum, the star of the film, was living in a rented cottage on the edge of town, and drinking Scotch one night while feeding peat to the fire and listening to Jim Reeves records with his man Harold, who had been a paramedic with the Coldstream Guards. Do I have to explain these things to you?"

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"Okay, McHugh," I said, "we're thrown free and survive. John McHugh: "Oh, we're off to Dublin in the green, in the green." McHugh insisted in sitting in the last row on the Aer Lingus flight, because he had read about a recent crash in which the tail had broken free, and the passengers in back had survived. We traded one first class ticket for a couple of cheap ones. David Lean was filming " Ryan's Daughter" on the Dingle Peninsula, and MGM was flying in film critics to visit the location. Late that night at the Gate, we determined to pay a visit to his homeland. There was also some discussion that during his service as the supervising altar boy, certain wedding and funeral tips may have been mislaid. John himself had studied briefly for the priesthood under the Christian Brothers, but was expelled at 15, charged with smoking. Trooper is the only man in Sligo who has a son who graduated from Indiana University." He was entrusted to Indiana under the protection of a cousin in Indianapolis who was a nun. "All of the money was never accounted for. "They were raising funds for the cause," he explained. His father had been a member of the IRA gang that held up the Ulster Bank of Sligo. John is one of 10 brothers from Sligo, Yeats Country, on the west coast of Ireland. Somebody ordered a cheeseburger and I, being a dumb Mick, didn't know any better." I told him Roquefort Burgers had long been widely known. "I had my first job in Chicago here," he reminisced. One night in autumn 1969 we found ourselves in the Old Town Gate, three blocks from our customary posts at O'Rourke's Pub.
