" And what’s the pitch? "
" No pitch, man, I only want to know what’s been happening in the family - I have a family, remember - and most; particularly, Sal, I want him to tell me things that I’ve forgot- -, ten in my childhood. I want to remember, remember, I do! " I never saw Dean so glad and excited. While we waited for: his cousin in the bar he talked to a lot of younger downtown < hipsters and hustlers and checked on new gangs and goings-on. Then he made inquiries after Marylou, since she’d been in Denver recently. " Sal, in my young days when I used to come to this corner to steal change off the newsstand for bowery beef stew, that rough-looking cat you see out there standing had nothing but murder in his heart, got into one horrible fight after another, I remember his scars eve
