Trio Gang Quotes

Wendell, tell Jinx how wrong he is," said Elfwyn. "Sure," Wendell turned to Jinx. "You're wrong man." "No, wait," said Jinx

Speed Gibson told of a 15–year-old pilot on the worldwide trail of a master criminal, “the Octopus,” and his ruthless gang of henchmen. The chase, with the fate of the world at stake, led to Africa and the Orient. Speed’s membership in ISP was secured by his uncle, crack agent Clint Barlow. Their semi-comical sidekick was Barney Dunlap; his interminable catchphrase was “Suffering whangdoodles!” This trio flew to Tibet in the airship Flying China Clipper, to keep after the Octopus gang. The opening signature brought in the sound of a droning aircraft and the urgent voice of an air trafficker: “Ceiling zero! … ceiling zero! … ceiling zero!” The entire serial (178 chapters) is available on tape, a fine example of mid-1930s juvenile radio.

Following that, the couple planned a final salute to Esmond’s Out of Bounds period. It was a raid on Eton College, with Philip Toynbee acting as gang member. Decca knew the layout because of her many family connections who were Old Etonians, and she took them to the anteroom of the chapel where they relieved the hat pegs of all the top hats they could carry away. They returned to London flushed with victory and thirty hats, ‘gallant symbols of our hatred of Eton, of our anarchy, our defiance,’ Toynbee wrote.39 Later, Toynbee lost his girlfriend over the incident for when he told her about it she turned huffy and said it was stealing. And it is difficult, with hindsight, to put any other interpretation on it. Had the trio repaired in good humour to a Thames bridge and cast the lot into the river, it might have been viewed as a prank, and a snub to a society they abhorred. But instead Esmond sold the hats to a second-hand clothes dealer and pocketed the cash. Which seems to smack as much of opportunism as any form of idealism.