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A World War Two veteran who served in both Europe and the Pacific, Faust took advantage of the G. I. Bill and became a teacher in the New York Public Schools. 1954, while teaching math and English in Harlem, he decided that, ... He began drinking at eight at the hotel and worked his way along the Strip. At Lou's Century Club he won a dance contest with a little white-haired lady who said you're cute as a bedbug, Mr. Rooney. In the One Two Three he asked if he could sing ...