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...Your story of "Zoot-Suit War" in Los Angeles [TIME, June 21] certainly "jumped the gun" on facts. No mention of the several murders committed by "zoot-suit gangs"; no mention of unprovoked attacks by them; no mention of unguarded knives and brass knuckles found in their possession when "not doing anything"; no mention of two single women in different parts of the city beaten by female gang members...
...BILL and REE PAGE with that still "newlywed look" talking to DUSTY RHODES and his Lil Gal, TERRY, but it seems to me that DUSTY is holding back on introductions to the Gang ... It could be that he has given her a sweetheart...
Opium & Acrostics. Editing The Female Poets of America, Griswold was involved in circles so vindictive that modern gang wars seem gentle in comparison. One slighted poetess misused a key to his room, read his private papers each day, quizzed the wives of poets to get material for troublemaking among them. The one delightful and wise woman among the poetesses - Mrs. Frances Sargeant Osgood - was Griswold's friend. She wrote Griswold this acrostic...
...course of nature, we young upstarts became an Old Gang. ... Of the seven Fabian essayists of the '80s the only survivors are [Sidney] Webb and myself, both octogenarians. ... Be patient with us: we shall not be long...
Depicting a story of a counterfeiting gang who are operating against this government, "I Escaped from the Gestapo" is good enough to hold your attention and to make you cheer when the FBI takes a hand in disposing of the band of saboteurs...