Music: That Old Shillelagh

The smartest thing that Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan ever did was to drop his nightstick and pick up a shillelagh. Shillelagh on his shoulder, an Irish grin on his handsome face, and a fine, free-swinging Irish ballad on his tongue, Phil Regan has been packing them in at the nightclubs, and attracting the kind of admirers who can help a man when he wants a little help. One night last week, he had to do two shows in two different Chicago hotels, and to get between them had to race his long, grey...

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