A scientist is sizing up Lefty as a human guinea pig (for his experiment that made real guinea pigs vanish):

“Perfect,” he says. “Just as I thought.” Naturally, I like compliments, but I realize I am no Victor Mature³⁵ and I wonder what he is fishing for. So I give him a long look, too.

The tales about #LeftyFeep that #RobertBloch wrote about in the 1940s are full of the culture of the era, and the slang of the society that the always-scheming ex-racketeer moved in. Hence the footnote in the collection, which points to

[35] Victor Mature was the Brad Pitt of the day.

Not the sort of image I expected to get from an old story. #BradPitt #VictorMature