Muscle for the bookie Whitey Sorkin — the "Twin Towers"; renamed "Don," nicknameless

pivotal · ~ages 18-23, B.S.

• When: from age ~18 to 23
• What: After dropping out Gately worked for North Shore bookmaker Whitey Sorkin, taking and collecting bets; he and Gene Fackelmann were Sorkin's "Twin Towers"/paid muscle (mostly affable arrangement-brokering, rare coercion at 5% vig, escalating in stages). Fackelmann took first-round light work because Gately, once started, had an uncontrolled "slope of ferocity." By this point Gately was no longer called Bimmy or Doshka — he was "Don" now, nicknameless (sometimes Donny).