Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Ever since he became a civilian, Eatherly has been in and out of hospitals and in and out of trouble. Back home in Texas, he was picked up a couple of times for forgery. Then he was arrested for theft and sent to a VA hospital in Waco for treatment...
Out of the night that shadows Harlem's filth and fear, two 1960 Ford station wagons raced north on the New York State Thruway toward Tarrytown and the comfortable hilltop home of James Arthur Vaus Jr., an ex-convict once known as a wiretapper for West Coast Gangster Mickey...
It seemed obvious that no good could come out of such an Apalachin Jr. sort of meeting between the young toughs and the two ex-cons. But the session had the full backing of New York City's police. For "Big Jim" Vaus and "Pete'' Thomas were...
No Doubters. As the moving spirits of a remarkably successful East Harlem rehabilitation mission named Youth De velopment Inc., Vaus and Thomas are two of the most expert bop-busters in the business. They, along with the staff of the city Youth Board, are the reason why 1960 has seen...
But Vaus still had trouble winning the confidence of East Harlem's ganglads. And it was not really until he met tough Pete Thomas, who spoke the language of East Harlem as it can only be spoken by those who have been raised in its asphalt jungle, that Vaus...