Father and the Angels Author:William Manners Father had a beard like Ulysses S. Grant. He always wore the kind of tie Abraham Lincoln wore. All through my childhood I thought of Father in terms of great and heroic men - and with reason. — Just to survive my escapades required more than one man's courage - and I had four brothers and a sister. — Father was the orthodox rabbi in Zanesville, Oh... more »io. It was strange that my sort criminal career should be connected with his synagogue...« less