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Inside prison, Henry met one of his nemeses, a 15-year-old Florencia member named Saoul whom he had once shot at in a park. Saoul approached him. "Say, ain't you from Grape Street? Didn't you shoot at me?" he asked. After a moment of silent appraisal, Henry says, "we both just started laughing." They talked. "He's a nice guy, you know, normal," Henry says. "We won't fight each other anymore, but I'll fight his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles All Ganged Up | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...Saoul Comme un Americain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...drinking to excess, and that if a Frenchman sees a "staggering drunk" in Paris, he assumes that it is an American? American customs, as observed in France, have even enriched the French language by a new comparison: instead of ivre comme un Polonais, the familiar expression is now (alas!) saoul comme un Américain [drunk as an American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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