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r of a concession at Coney Island, a saloon-keeper; but in his fifties he had travelled arou

Doc Marlowe was a medicine-show man. He had been a lot of other things, too: a circus man, the proprieto

He was sixty-seven. There was that vast difference in our ages and there was a vaster difference in our backgrounds.nd with a tent-show troupe made up of a Mexican named Chickalilli, who threw knives, and a man called Professor Jones, who played the banjo. Doc Marlowe would come out after the entertainment and harangue the crowd and sell bottles of medicin

I was too young to be other than awed and puzzled by Doc Marlowe when I knew him. I was only sixteen when he died.