Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy MacPartland was back home last week. He was the only survivor in those parts" of the "Austin High gang," some of whom had gone to school together on Chicago's West Side. Saxophonist Bud Freeman, Drummer Dave Tough and Guitarist Eddie Condon were playing in Manhattan...
...each other. There is some effective singing in a nightclub (by June Duprez), such side dishes of menace as a suspect gentleman in a turban, and some reasonably exciting mayhem in a pitch dark hangar. Gradually the investigators realize that they have unwittingly been flying the Hump for a gang of jewel thieves who will stop at nothing-not even the picture's denouement...
...Gang...
...slob, I've got a brain. All you got is a strong back. We'll see who stays in the big leagues the longest." Durocher was thrown off the gentlemanly Yankees, bounced in Cincinnati, and came down to earth in St. Louis with the famed Gashouse Gang (Pepper Martin, Dizzy Dean and Frankie Frisch...
Through the pages of the April issue of "Radditudes" parade what is probably the most homicidal and sexually maladjusted collection of characters ever to appear in a girl's college magazine. In itself, this fact does not condemn "Radditudes." A gang of misanthropes, murderers, and masochists, handled properly, can make excellent reading. For the most part, however, the stories in "Radditudes" offer neither narrative, nor clean-out character studies, nor reasonably penetrable allegery, but substitute slightly pretentious, somewhat mystifying, and extremely bloody vignettes...