Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati, Ohio, schoolboys, aged 9 to 12, organized a "Black X" gang, exacted tribute of 1? to 20? from their schoolmates for allowing them, to go to school without getting beaten up. One mother who received a note ("We want 15 cents by Monday or else we will go to town") kept her boy out of school for three days. Police discovered he had written it himself...
CROOKED SHADOW-Kurt Steel-Little, Brown ($2). Private sleuth Henry Hyer falls foul of a Long Island Nazi gang who framed his young assistant for murder. The plot's intrigues are given a sombre speciousness by current events and nimble writing...
...Hitchcock but an authentic Laughton. Scarcely a shot in the whole picture revealed the famed British director's old mastery of cunning camera, sly humor, shrewd suspense. But Charles Laughton's impersonation of a Nero-like Cornish squire who is the paranoiac brain behind a gang of land pirates was magnificent in the eye-rolling, head-cocking, lip-pursing, massively mincing Laughton style...
...common European starling, Sturnus vulgaris, is a black-hued bird with a blue-green iridescence on its glossy plumage. Introduced to the U. S. in 1890 to crowd out sparrows, starlings themselves have become a nuisance in some eastern cities, notably Washington. When they gang up in great flocks, as they often do, they make a dreadful din. But when performing solo, Sturnus vulgaris is one of the most versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young...
...trip down there. The rest of the band--the trick stuff of drummer Ray Baudue and bassist Bobby Haggert, you probably know about already, so there isn't any need to review it. Incidentally, the latter is the author of the very popular "What's New", which the Crosby gang originally recorded under the name of "I'm Free." Just another little item not to miss...