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...point that thing at me," snapped Blankenship, bristling. The pistol was snatched by another member of the gang, Frank Santana, 17, a dark, undersized youth who yelled at his buddies: "Don't chicken...
...Santana fired one shot. Young Blankenship fell dying, a bullet through his heart. The Navajos fled, some riding away on their bicycles. Santana hid the pistol at his home and went to bed; when his mother returned to their shabby apartment, he was hungry. "Give me some coffee and something to eat," he said. At 3 a.m. the police, after questioning many youths, came to arrest him, and he confessed readily...
...Clean Dirt. Frank Santana, his two younger brothers and his widowed mother came from Puerto Rico; they lived on $158 monthly relief. Often truant from school, he was never truculent, simply baffled. His I.Q. score: a very low 69. He stayed four terms in the same class, but his teachers never considered him a disciplinary problem. A neighbor said that he was considerate: "The woman next door has a baby, and Frank would take the carriage in for her without being asked." He went three nights a week to a nearby Police Athletic League center, designed to keep boys...
...ocean-going racing yacht. Mike Romanoff, the famed phony prince, wise man and restaurateur who is a sometime arbiter of Hollywood society, allows him to appear for meals without a necktie. He is president and principal stockholder of a motion-picture producing company of his own, Santana Pictures, and at times, as in Knock on Any Door, In a Lonely Place and Beat the Devil, is, so to speak, his own high-paid employee...
Family Policy. In San Francisco, Mrs. Elena Santana explained why she threw $5,000 in cash off the Golden Gate Bridge: "My husband throws his money away gambling . . . I can throw mine away...