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...Brooklyn, mop-haired, zoot-suited Barry Jacobs had every opportunity to get sharpened up. His father, a bail bondsman, not only made a lucrative career out of springing prostitutes for onetime Crime King "Lucky" Luciano, but turned state's evidence when the roof fell in and got off without a bruise. Barry, however, was both stupid and unlucky. He had hardly started a career as a holdup man at the age of 16 before he was nabbed by the cops. At 18 he found himself doing time in a reformatory. Last week, out on parole and 20, he swaggered...
...district commissioner proposed that the Bamangwato elect another chief. The tribal elders, wearing goatskins, zoot suits and flashy ties, told him to be quiet. They shook their fists and spat. Bamangwato virgins stormed the dais where Batho sat, and screamed: "We want our chief Seretse . . . May you die where you stand." Batho appealed for order and was shouted down: "Seretse should lead us . . . We cannot nominate anyone else to take his place. You have tried to rule us with a rod of iron. You treat us like ants. We won't have...
...sharpest criticisms have come from the old guard. To many a while haired alumnus, massive cream colored curved walls floating above nothing but glass is as great a sacrilege as dressing John Harvard in a Zoot Suit. Not only is this monstrosity out of place, but it is plainly ugly, they...
Pseudo Pachuco. His mastery of border Spanish and his ability to imitate a Mexican pachuco (zoot-suiter) led him into a career as an undercover agent. As such, he worked all over the U.S., and at one point fought his way out of a nest of six knife-wielding junkies...
...week the cops had grabbed ten of Garza's contacts in Wichita Falls, four in Fort Worth, four in Dallas, and one in Waco. Garza, resting up from his endeavors, looks forward to the day when he will be too old or too well-known to be a zoot-suited undercover agent in high schools. He wants to be a Texas Ranger...