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Perhaps the weirdest thing about the book is the reconstructed conversations with Accomplice Dickie Loeb, who, in Leopold's recollections, speaks a weirdly dated slang. It is with a kind of horror that the modern reader finds an appalling crime described in a debased Tom Swift idiom. Writes Leopold: "Dick was in high spirits . . . 'That'll be a snap. Nate. Nothing to it.' " Says Loeb to Leopold, as they are planning to collect ransom for Bobby Franks: "Hey, this is neat, Nate-hey, I'm a poet!" When headlines announce: BODY OF BOY FOUND...
...could not get the box open, and flew on to Uijongbu, twelve miles north of Seoul. 'T have a box of spare parts on board," he radioed the field. When the box was unloaded, a Korean soldier heard "whimpering," found Kim inside. "That's a slicky boy [slang for thief]," observed James. Freed, Kim made his way back to Ascom City, told his story to Korean police, who took him to a U.S. Army hospital. Doctors washed off the tar, found Kim otherwise in "good condition...
...missile capable of intercepting an ICBM, but both the Army and the Air Force are working on "aunties" (Pentagon slang for antimissile missiles). An auntie would have to perform with fantastically superfine precision-unattainable, some scientists fear-in order to find a remote target moving at 15,000 m.p.h., but if it does prove to be feasible, auntie plus ORDIR would take the ultimateness out of the ultimate weapon...
...Behan, 34, knows prison bars from the inside; he was sentenced in his teens to an English reformatory for dropping I.R.A. explosives into London mailboxes, has spent in all eight years in prison for assorted violence on behalf of Irish freedom. His dialogue flourishes with a knowledgeability of prison slang-a cell is a "flowery dell" and time is "birdlime"-and makes engaging capital of the peculiar snobbery of the penitentiary in which the long-termers, or lags, have social precedence over the young or first-term offenders...
...Slang & Rector. The Zlatovskis became part of the Soble network in January 1940, the indictment charged. At times they dealt directly with Soble, an importer of bristles and animal hair who acted as a sometime boss of Russian espionage in the U.S. on the direct orders of the late Russian Secret Service boss, Lavrenty Beria. On other occasions they worked with Russian-born Musician and Hollywood Producer Boris (Carnegie Hall Morros, 62, an unwilling courier who was trying to protect members of his family behind the Iron Curtain, was put in touch with Soble by Elizabeth Zubilin, wife...