Word: gange
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was no more booze in the closet and, worst of all, they owed a million and a half dollars to angry creditors-including their archenemy, the Internal Revenue Service. When Leader Warren Hinckle III wrote the whole thing off, it sure looked like the end for the gang's magazine...
...fast, fellas and girls. Remember Publisher Freddy Mitchell's vow to keep the magazine alive at all costs? Well, no sooner had Warren left than the gang got together and decided that what they had to do was file bankruptcy papers. And they did! That was last February. Then the Boys went out to collect as much money as they could find. Which they did! More than $100,000 from ten new investors-enough to keep the IRS off their backs...
Causes for concern persist, of course. Police in Chicago worry about a continuation of the snipings and gang shoot-outs that have claimed 29 lives since the beginning of the year. Authorities in New York fear that racial turmoil centered in the schools may spill into the community at large this summer. Pittsburgh police are alert for guerrilla warfare in integrated mill neighborhoods. Despite these threats, despite the knowledge that a single unexpected incident can turn hope to ashes-literally-the dominant mood is that this year the cities are not for burning...
Publisher Charles Gould of the San Francisco Examiner says he has turned away "tens of thousands of dollars" in advertising that he found overly offensive. Still, the Examiner went ahead and ran the Sister George ad unretouched. Another display ad showed a motorcycle gang from Naked Angels closing in on a near-nude girl. The copy read, "Mad dogs from hell! Hunting down their prey with a quarter-ton of hot steel between their legs...
...Ince. Mike Ananis was on the third unit last year, and Regan and Jim Kilkowski were both honorable mention. All three, especially Regan, have a good chance to be selected again. And if Ince doesn't get chosen, it will be like naming the 15 best members of Our Gang ("Little Rascals," to some of us) and leaving out Alfalfa...