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Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi -- diving off an eighty-foot ladder into nine feet of water for the amusement of gamblers, gangsters, and luscious belles. His riskiest feat, however, was witnessing a Dixie-style mob... read more
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- Robert Taylor
- Charlie Hoke
- Jerry
- Walter Kirkbride
- John Rau
- Vernice
- Anne
- Mr Billy Darwin
- Hector Diaz
- Floyd
- Jim Rein
- Eugene
- Wesley
- Diane Corrigan-cochrane
- Carla
- Loretta
- Traci
- Newton
- Robert Johnson
- Brice
- Cedric
- Bob Hoon
- Germano Mularoni
- Jackson
- Marvin Pontiac
- John Lee Hooker
- Chickasaw Charlie
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"DENNIS LENAHAN THE HIGH DIVER would tell people that if you put a fifty-cent piece on the floor and looked down at it, that's what the tank looked like from the top of that eighty-foot steel ladder."
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- Elmore Leonard (Author)
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Page Count: 400
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- Dewey: 813.54
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