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...heat probably had been applied to try to get the truth, one of them said, 'Yassuh, yassuh, we hit him in the head.'" Underwood got "confessions" signed by three of the prisoners-Jesse James Jr., Amos Redmond and Jesse Davis-admitting they had lured McKinney from a juke joint, robbed him of $40, bashed in his head and thrown his body in the Sunflower River. The fourth prisoner, Willie Galloway, refused to sign...
...drive from Manhattan to Miami gave Columnist Robert C. Ruark meat for an ulcerous attack on roadside restaurants. If you spot one that has "a neon light out front, a mess of chromium inside, and an easily evident juke box," he wrote, "what you get to eat would poison an ostrich . . . They will take a perfectly good horse-burger out of the freezer, and it comes to the customer, after subjection to the stove, a deep shade of grey and curled at the edges . . . There is no law which says that a roll or a piece of bread must...
...Hotel Thayer at West Point, gazing out on an ice-choked Hudson River and the snow-covered hills. Outside his third-floor "presidential" suite, an MP stood guard. Downstairs in the basement grill, several hundred college girls and their cadet dates devoured cheeseburgers and malted milks while a juke box thumped out Goodnight, Irene...
With relish, Lawyer Nowell started digging into Beulah's background. He made Beulah's whimpering mother tell how she had taken her daughter to juke joints at the age of 13, using her as a stalking-horse for men. Beulah had never known that love could mean happiness. For her it was only the assortment of men-big or little, decent or nasty-that her mother picked up. But nevertheless she thought her mother was kind: "For one thing, she only turned the nicest ones over to me, the businessmen...
Hundreds of the boom's new families were living in trailers; many were sleeping in automobiles. Drillers, riggers, roughnecks and roustabouts packed the juke-joints and short-order cafes (dry Snyder has no bars). Trucks hauling oil derricks half a block long kept the courthouse square grey with dust. With new motor courts, hotels, office buildings and theaters abuilding, bug-eyed citizens of Snyder were predicting a population of 30,000 by next year...