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Updated: May 15, 2025

We had just been out to LaGuardia to see if it was true that Marilyn Monroe was sneaking into town with Aly Khan on a night plane it wasn't and we were coming across the Triborough Bridge, heading south toward the East River Drive, when the office called. I pulled over and parked and answered the radiophone. "Listen, Sandy, there's a gang fight in East Harlem. Where are you now?"

Frederik Pohl - The Day of the Boomer Dukes