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...after seven years in the city, he "went on the cops." He attended the school for recruits, made the grade, and was assigned to a night beat on the Brooklyn waterfront. For the next seven years, he wore a cop's uniform. He learned many things: that it was 'often more sensible to let a drunk sleep under a signboard than to haul him to the station house; that it was always wise to whistle for aid before tackling trouble. Once he waded into a gang of roistering sailors, slipped in the snow, was beaten to a pulp...
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both 33, already have a new crimebuster on their drawing boards. Their Funnyman is an athletic, but not quite superhuman, combination of swashbuckler and Keystone Cop. Now competing with Superman for the comic-bookworms, Funnyman will jump to the funnypapers when Siegel & Shuster find a syndicate...
Swinging two-foot-long nightsticks like polo mallets, the mounted cops rode the mob into the gutters. Their allies on foot clubbed away with professional impartiality. In the garish, winking light men & women in agitated clumps struggled, groaned, desisted, fled. A news photographer was roughed up. Picket signs were splintered, leaflets shredded, clothing ripped. A cop shoved a matronly lady. "Sir," she murmured reproachfully, "I'm an innocent bystander." "Lady," he answered in sweaty exasperation, "if you was innocent you wouldn't be here." Five men were arrested...
...Duff" Duffy, son of a Jersey City cop, was barred from a life class at the Art Students League in Manhattan because he was still in short pants. He went to work on the old New York Herald and the Evening Post as an illustrator and left, at 22, to sail for Europe with only $150 in his pocket. He studied art and sipped vermouth on an empty stomach in Paris, then came back home to the Eagle...
...City College ('39), hasn't lost any of his 300-odd matches since graduation. Famed on the force and around the mats for his polysyllabic vocabulary, Wittenberg has a master's degree from Columbia's Teachers College, taught public school briefly before turning cop. He talks earnestly of "pectoral muscles" and "neural paths," is proud that he is one man who can mangle his opponent but not his mother tongue. After hours, he dabbles in oils and plays enthusiastic chess. In fact, he considers wrestling a kind of "body chess" ("You give...