title: Bridgeport in my Rear View Mirror: Mangled, Maudlin, Memoirs of Semi-truth-less Adolescent Adventures (and Misadventures) in the 40s & 50s in Connecticut
author:  Nick M Nero 
description: Nick Nero is a former Professor (technically an Associate Professor before he left the profession at the age of twenty-eight) of Speech and Drama; a former entrepreneur/businessman; and currently a writer of fiction and non-fiction. He has published an extensively research, highly acclaimed, non-fiction work on the Kennedy assassination called JFK: ASSASSINATION REHEARSAL (Algora Publishing, 2014). He is currently working on a sequel to BRIDGEPORT IN MY REAR VIEW MIRROR: MANGLED,MAUDLIN, MEMOIRS OF SEMI-TRUTH-LESS ADOLESCENT ADVENTURES (AND MISADVENTURES) IN THE 40s &amp; 50s IN CONNECTICUT. The sequel is tentatively titled, EAST OF EDEN, WEST OF BRIDGEPORT: MAD MEN AND MAD TIMES IN THE 60s and 70s.
zlib_text: A Stranger in the Mirror
  By Sidney Sheldon
  
  If you would seek to
  find yourself
  Look not in a mirror
  For there is but a
  shadow there,
  A stranger…
  —SILENIUS, Odes to
  Truth
  
  Contents
  Epigraph
  Note to the Reader
   
  Prologue
  On a Saturday morning in November
  in 1969, a series…
  Book One
  1
  In 1919, Detroit, Michigan, was the
  single most successful industrial…
  2
  
  In 1939, New York City was a mecca
  for the…
  3
  On Labor Day, the summer season in
  the Catskills was…
  4
  Vaudeville had flourished in America
  from 1881 until its final…
  5
  In the beginning, Toby Temple’s war
  was a nightmare.
  6
  Hollywood, California, in 1946, was
  the film capital of the…
  7
  
  When Sam Winters returned from the
  war his job at…
  8
  Toby Temple had tried to reach Sam
  Winters half a…
  9
  Actors West was divided into two
  sections: the Showcase group,…
  10
  “I’ve gotten you a booking in Las
  Vegas,” Clifton Lawrence…
  11
  The wedding, a gala event, was held
  in the ballroom…
  12
  
  There were days when Sam Winters
  felt as though he…
  13
  In a str