the Chief had been able to, and had managed to win their loyalty while he was at it.… … He was a fighter. Man, was he ever. Not afraid of anybody or anything. He’d have tackled hell with a garden hose if he’d had a reason to, and you just had to respect somebody like that.… … And a talker—he could have talked a dog off a meat wagon. Ziolkowski had said one time, “That man could sell you the Brooklyn Bridge and then make you glad you’d bought it.” If he hadn’t been able to do that—to talk all kinds of people into all kinds of things—the Rushmore job probably would have died a long time ago.… …
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