"Thanks! I Needed That!" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[George Thompson]

>
> Sean Connery in _Playboy_, Nov 1965:  "I don't think there is anything
> particularly wrong about hitting a woman ... If a woman is a bitch, or
> hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I'd do it." "
>
Then there was Monk Eastman, a noted thug and gang leader in NYC in the late 1890s to mid 1900s.  It was his proud boast that he had never struck a woman, without taking his brass knuckles off first.

(Eastman's story is pretty interesting -- in 1905 he tried to mug a young drunk (though as the leader of a very extensive gang, he should have thought such a stunt beneath him); unfortunately the drunk was the son of a wealthy and well-connected man -- who had hired Pinkerton detectives to follow his son on his benders and keep him out of trouble.  Eastman pounced on the kid, the Pinkertons pounced on Eastman; neither the Pinkertons nor the father could be bought off, so Eastman went to prison; he got out in time to enlist in the Army for WWI, and served with sufficient distinction that his commanding officer recommended him for a pardon, which Governor FDR granted.  Eastman couldn't stay straight, got into bootlegging, and was killed in ca. 1920 by his partner.)

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:16 am
Subject: Re: "Thanks! I Needed That!" (UNCLASSIFIED)
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> > This is not to say that I ever saw any such movie or even that any
> > such movie ever existed. I can't recall, one way or the other. It
> > could even be the case that I only *heard* this on the radio as part
> > of  some parody of a doesn't-hesitate-to-hurt-a-bitch-if-she-needs-it
> > movie tough guy.
> >
>
> Sean Connery in _Playboy_, Nov 1965:  "I don't think there is anything
> particularly wrong about hitting a woman ... If a woman is a bitch, or
> hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I'd do it." "
>
> I'm still waiting for that one to get into YBQ . . . .
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