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...they have nailed their windows down and keep their doors locked." During the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s, St. Louis residents beat the heat by sleeping in parks or along the Mississippi river front. Today, says one police officer, "you'd have to sleep with a shotgun...
Even Dangerfield's silliest gags have the sting of truth. How accurate they may be about his own life is another matter. He talks about "comedic license," but whether he is doing a shotgun discourse on marriage or about growing up Jewish and poor in a section of New York City that is well-off and Waspy, he seems to be drawing from deep roots. Rodney was Jacob Cohen when the neighborhood kids had names "like Marianne and Biff." When they were on the tennis courts, he was delivering groceries. He started writing gags when...
...police, next stripped and tied the Mexicans and beat them with pistols and a metal rod. The cattlemen were alleged to have scorched the soles of Ruelas' feet with a hot poker and threatened to castrate and hang the trio. Finally the captors freed the aliens, pumping shotgun pellets into their backs and legs as they scrambled across the border to Agua Prieta...
...that the man on the phone in the coffee shop be arrested. The police hustled over, and Sergeant Jack Mair approached the caller from behind. "I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to identify himself," says Mair. "He looked at me, saw my uniform and my shotgun, and said, 'Howard Buddy Jacobson...
...boyfriend. Behind him stood the man with the gun. "He started to raise it, and I got ready to squeeze one off. But my partner got in the way, and he squeezed one off instead." Added his partner, "All I could see was the barrel of that shotgun--looked this big." Obligingly, one points to the hole in the wall where the bullet hit. Then the gunman fled upstairs--a few minutes later they talked him down to the landing, then wrestled the rifle away from him. "Was the safety off?" "Yeah, turned...