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...Fred is a panhandler's dreamboat. For ten years an old vaudevillian named Wilbur used to rap at the door of the Allen apartment every Sunday afternoon. Every time, Fred lectured him sternly, finally gave him $10 "for the last time." Portland once caught Wilbur before he knocked, told him Fred was out of town. Fred waited, got more & more restless. When he had worked himself into a nervous lather, Portland relented, confessed. Next Sunday Fred lectured Wilbur twice as hard, gave...
...hospital buddies who were kind to him: a British pilot, a British paratrooper, an American Negro G.I. In Burma, he finds the pilot (who had once objected to having the Negro in the same hospital room), happily married to a Burmese girl. The paratrooper (who had beaten a murder rap on the plea that the Army had taught him to kill), is married and content with his meat-delivery route. The Negro G.I. has gone to England, is married to the English girl his white officers once accused him of trying to rape...
...soon it became apparent that a new spirit might be percolating through N.A.M.'s hardened arteries. Significantly, the man who first expressed it was hulking, able Walter B. Weisenburger, who, as executive vice president and thus N.A.M.'s top permanent officer, has often had to take the rap for N.A.M.'s reputation...
...HITTER ON ROLLING RAP...
John Dillinger, most famed modern badman, beat a rap twelve years after he was shot dead. The prosecutor's office in Lake County, Indiana, was just getting around to dismissing an old murder indictment against...