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His father's shop, the legendary Savoy, served Glasgow's teeming crowds of night people. Policemen would be taking a break from the beat in the back of the shop, while drunks, underworld figures, bookies' runners, entertainers and wee hard men thronged the front. The business flourished, and as a young man Joe enjoyed a standard of living better than many of his customers. Then came the Second World War. Suddenly, he was no longer a familiar face in the local community but an enemy of the country. He and every other male of Italian birth in Scotland was rounded up and imprisoned.   Eventually, he was sent over U-boat-infested seas to spend the rest of the war in an internment camp in Canada. After the war, Joe returned to Glasgow to try to revive a badly shattered business. These were hard years when rationing of cooking ingredients meant reliance on a booming black market. 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