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...Itch. Many of his car-crazed coterie may have shrugged off Smitty's repeated threats to kill his best girl, Gretchen Fritz, 17. Some, after Gretchen and her sister Wendy, 13, disappeared, seriously suspected that he had carried out his threat. Several of his intimates thought they knew that a year earlier he had dispatched another girl, Alleen Rowe, 15, as wantonly as he had once smashed a pet cat against a wall. Even so, if one of Smitty's pals, fearing that his own girl friend was next in line for liquidation, had not finally told...
Indeed, the city's police were not overly concerned when Mrs. Norma Rowe told them that Alleen had disappeared in May 1964, or even when Dr. James Fritz, a prominent heart surgeon, came in to report his two daughters missing in August 1965. In Tucson, a boom town with an unusually high proportion of transient residents, more than 50 runaway minors are reported each month. Propelled by the same aimless itch, unrestrained by permissive parents, hundreds of teenagers haunt the Speedway. They were easy bait for Smitty, who was older, more sophisticated and, as they said admiringly, "different...
...Problem. What went on in the swinging fringe of teen-age Tucson was all too clearly documented in the course of Schmid's two-week trial for the murders of Gretchen and Wendy Fritz. Juvenile authorities pointed out that many parents either did not care what their children were up to or else hesitated to check on their activities for fear of inhibiting them. The advent of birth control pills has tranquilized the fear of pregnancy among young girls who have no moral reservations about sexual activity. "What are parents and what is the community doing to fill...
...community finally did something about Smitty. Last week a jury convicted him of murdering the Fritz girls and sent him to die in the Arizona gas chamber...
...What this country needs," Conductor Fritz Reiner once observed, "is more lousy string quartets." It is not for lack of trying. Indeed, the compulsion of amateur musicians to get together for an evening of chamber music is all but irrepressible. An Army officer's wife one day was approached by a stranger who noticed a telltale mark on her neck: "You must play the violin. Would you like to join our group?" A Boston doctor, hearing a man whistling a Mozart theme on the street, whistled back and soon had a date for duets. One desperate violinist pinned notes...