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RARA-AVIS: The Secret Six
It seems my .sig file got left off the message I sent yesterday. So
in an effort to see if I know what I did wrong, here's another question.
History this time.
What, in real life, were "The Secret Six"? I first heard mention of them
in a bio of Al Capone, it said they were a secret group of wealthy
businessmen who worked behind-the-scenes against Capone, letting Elliot
Ness and his Untouchables take the headlines. Or something like that.
Then there was the 1931 gangster film THE SECRET SIX, which had the Six
as a largely undefined group of men in black masks who met to plot
against the gangsters/bootleggers. Said gangsters were the best part of
that movie, btw, entertaining hardboiled portrayals by Wallace Beery,
Lewis Stone, Ralph Bellamy, and others made the forces of law and order
look quite boring by comparison.
-Ken
--
Ken Yousten "...someday I'm gonna be lucky and run into
Blacksburg, VA you when I'm carrying a bowl of goldfish"
kyousten@bev.net Ginger Rogers, "Stage Door"
<http://acm.vt.edu/~yousten/lewton.html> -- Val Lewton WWW page
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