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...They were the zoot-suit wearers, the jive bombers and the jitter-bugs...
...young Brooklyn boys in zoot suits, Joseph Annunziata and Neil Simonelli, never did like their old math teacher anyhow. So one day two months ago they went back to their high school and smoked in a washroom, just to be annoying. When the teacher reprimanded them and sent them packing, they got sore. Presently they returned to the school with a revolver and shot the math teacher in the back. He died in his blood on the floor of the school corridor. On such evidence the two boys, no longer in zoot suits, were last week sent to Sing Sing...
...Military police on duty at a Washington, D.C. jitterbug dance hall last week were so shocked they could only stare. Before their regimented eyes swaggered an enlisted soldier in a $150 zoot uniform. The tunic shaped in from broad, padded shoulders. The form-fitting coat flopped well below the hands that hung from leg-of-mutton sleeves. A white belt held the trousers chest-high over a cocoa-colored shirt and white tie. Above the ankles were ten-inch hemstitched stuff cuffs. A zoot watch chain swung low from the right pants pocket...
...common person then descends into mere vulgarity. This common touch stands up beautifully in such a number of "What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear" in "This Is the Army." Here is a poor song but a fine idea, dealing with the substitution of khaki uniforms for zoot suits...
...last week's issue on what goes on in Indiana University is enough to whet the propaganda pencil of any Axis spokesman. If LIFE's editors are to be listened to, students in our colleges are having a riot of a time making pick-ups in libraries, wearing zoot suits, and playing havoc with the sanity of their professors...