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The Survivor Breen Finds Love and War Amid New York
Johnny Breen, a 16 year old tugboat survivor, arrives in New York after an explosion sinks his boat. Taken in by a Jewish Bowery family, he trains as a boxer under Pug Malone and meets Josephine Van Horn. John builds a life, studies at Columbia, and becomes engaged before a shipwreck, war, and family revelations reshape his fate.
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New York City
New York
Bowery
Pug Malone
Breen
Tife
van Horn
Josephine
John
Trousseau
Rantoul
Gilbert van Horn
Chili
Siter
London
Europe
Amercan American Society
Pragauay
Correspondeus
Institution of Civil Engineers of
Great Britain
John Breen
Fame Leavin
Colfax
Andy Hook John
Almon Strauss
Paris
Pug
Tolk
Judge Kelly
Ington Heidts
Altho
Greenbough
Engineer’s Club
Sims
Rivington Street
Orsephine
Canal Street