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...Ginger Rap. In Pine Grove, Calif., a ward of the Youth Authority escaped from detention camp, left a note: "I got tired of this place and if you guys want me, you guys got to look for me at home, but please save my cookies until I come back...
Hoodlum Frank Costello came when he was called last week, began paying the four years and 1½ months he still owes on an income tax rap. Before catching his free bus to the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., "The Prime Minister" told reporters he would be "put in solitary for 30 days, but I'm not really bitter." Rolling across the Jersey Meadows, he might well have recalled a favorite axiom learned during his East Harlem youth: "Tough times make monkeys eat red peppers...
Under red, blue, green and yellow lights at a club in Léopoldville's sprawling native quarter, women in grass skirts and men with chalked bodies stomped to the hard rap of a hollow-log drum. Then Gerald Tzinga and his Rock-a-Mambo Band took over, and white-shirted clerks sedately circled the concrete floor with their partners. With dances, military parades, bicycle races, football matches and the mass distribution of medals for faithful service, the Congo celebrated last week the soth anniversary of its annexation by Belgium...
Only 400 bidders and selected spectators could get into the musty, green-walled main gallery; the rest of the 1,400 ticket holders were sent to other rooms, where they could follow the bidding on closed-circuit TV screens. The sale took only 21 minutes. But from the first rap of the auctioneer's hammer, prices leaped upward at a $100,000-a-minute clip to shatter every known art auction record. Items...
...humbly whistling an Irish air as he searched musty closets for machine-guns, hashish, Radcliffe girls and other contraband. It is the memory of leather magazine covers, tattered around the edges by the leisurely passing of time in the House common room. It is the memory of the indecisive rap on the oaken door and the diffident request to please modulate the sound on the record player. But perhaps paramount in my catalogue of memories is the greatest of these familiar symbols of fellowship--fellowship itself...