European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Walter tunes up the by Victoria Graham associated press horns honk and cars taxi driven snarl and tourists a Man snickers and a boy grips his fathers it is the and he leads a Parade in his oblivious to All this a Grimy Ottle Man Stoops with serenity in the Middle of Manhattan traffic and pounds his drumsticks on the and or the the seas at traffic he is known As the drummer boy of seventh the 50th Street Little lord Fauntleroy or the bunt who lives in the Call him Walter or Tony or Ilo Bui or Robert he goes by All of but nobody knows his nobody remembers when he look up residence in the door Way of the drugstore on 50lh Street Between sixth and seventh Walter is As Good a name As part Charlie Chaplin and part or told Prospect he leads a charmed he lives in an Alcove under a window beside a hot air he eats and sleeps and holds court with the window washers and every morning he stands on his head and touches his he is As Spry As a Chimney sweep and almost an he tills a Battle o is Fol Louis Martini Ca Bernet Sauvignon or a half gallon whisky Jug a gentler brew of water and Lemon juice he collects bottle Cap and imaginary Waller u an a pet and a nuisance nurtured by the neighbor Hood for at Hunt Tea years now just two mocks inn radio pay after Winter and summer he bows and bops on one tosses a drumstick in the catches it behind his and he Drums the its the same thing Over and in just says orphaned by overwhelmed by and uttering half of a baloney Sand he Doest say much and what he says is disconnected and almost whispered from a nearly toothless Mouth lost in a shaggy does he Ever get lonely does be have a family but there All Why does live an play in the Street because its the tone on the Asphalt is what about his music its diatonic and sometimes what else does he do i compose roman tic waiter says be is that be wat Bora on us in a fun Ameri on the mexican he Tayt he in the that be hut Bis Saxo that be was a that be was Noe of the flying Rota and when the questions get too Walter simply says excuse i have to and he his Asphalt v he disappears or a and no one knows where be vaguely he says he goes not far from police think he might go u the salvation army or he municipal but they dont remember in new theres Many a different drummer who lives on the but unlike Many Walter does not rail and nor does he drink hard nor does he people give food and leaving them in his Little sometimes he accepts sometimes he takes the Money to the Corner newsstand Tor Safe Ore putt it in the up and Down the Walter is looked after by the by window by the Salesman at Ibe clothing and theres the clerk at the Ite cashier at the Coffee shop and pop at the Corner Tad Drivers give hint Loose change and people wrap food and leave it far my in garbage two kids tried to steal Bis drumsticks and were rebuked by a passerby you cant do those belong to the drum the kids nodded and left the window Demente Van shoos away the bums who wander into the drummers Hes a wonderful Man and never bothers says Van who gives the drummer a Quarter Tram time to time and gave him the Coal he Rudy manager at Ultima clothing store across the gave him his Scarf and Joel owner of s and s gave him an jacket and George manager at tie gave him a pair of socks and tried to give him a discount on a ski but Waller insisted on paying the full Norma cashier at cobra Corner the pavement Maestro Coffee sometimes takes him Coffee and danish at the newsstand on 50th Street and seventh Fop just Call me keeps an Eye out for the drum Hes a Well educated gentle says Hes got his wife ran away with his bed Friend and be  take people give us Money or Tor u be Doest want he gives it to us for Safe not everyone likes the of n nearby Meni who declined o be Tunte the drummer is a Hei a Booty i wish bed go Down to Multi Street Portne other people thing the drummer is Good for a take Merrill who books musicians and sometimes hires the drum Mer or to show up at a Lawn party or an italia american Day in the i know him As and if i want a Little something i find some times he puts on a Clown suit and puts on a real he just docs what he docs on the officer Lou the cop on the Rockefeller Center is fond of chiding washing his urging him to Lake a Bath and not to pick lice off himself on Busy sixth if you clean him put a business suit on him and Cut his theres not that much difference Between Walter and a Tot of other people on the he people walk Down the Street All the shouting jumping and doing lots of weird we walk in we get Walter plays in traffic Day after Day and nothing the Tail driven give him he seems happier than a lot of maybe he found his you cant put him in the says d1 because Hes not in act Hes quite you cant put him in the detox Ward be cause Hes not a you cant put him in a mental Hospital because Hes not hurting himself or other and 1 cant even give him a jaywalking ticket 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