European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Sportes by Jules associated press hell hath no fury like the sidewalks of new York on a steamy summer East West All around the boys and girls cavort under fir plug Spring splash in Gutter run Barefoot from Shade to Shade on soft on 20th Street a Block from the East they lira up at Sam the ice Cream nuns Sam a Man of Good has been Selling ice Cream at the same Comer for 30 what is Nathans famous fur Sam Calls hot dogs chorus the kids gathered around his what is Sam famous whammy cry the and run away a Lor the Benefit at All Over a a cold confection on a Slick and outs 10 or or however Many a Wall Flat happens to Sam rarely what Ore Yoa gang to he reaching into the cart through a Milt of magic not give ii Voltam according to one Well placed a old connoisseur of Almond is the Guy in the j argument year on july 2 the neighbor Hood Many of them former members of Sams greeted him on his Comer with a big cake and some Nice summer shirts and several boxes of cigars and birthday to Sams which Are he exam ined the lit a composed thanked the then he passed out the cake to the u youre an ice Cream hum and dwt like kids youre la Ott wrong Sam i never had children of my own but there All my children it you know what 1 i know nearly All of them by i know their mothers and fathers Ive watched them grow up and go Oft to College and get mar come Back and vat tiny and bring the sir kids and us is i used to get to Cream from Sam when i was a Little Girt i know them All and i guess they All know is that dust is there anybody in the neighbourhood who Doest know Sam the kids pondered the question a Long maybe Conroy Doest know said polishing i third Almond said Phillip the fudge bar but conveys Only been Ben a Conroy Doest to Sam Batchoff they All every stick fingered one of because they Are his i Sam lives alone a few blocks from Bis Corner he each morning at its alone in restau rant Aad Dawdle Over breakfast i the paper until bad he fastens als Tola changer to Bis Bdl and Heads for us his with his Blue baseball Cap and his eve present Cigar jutting through his eve present smile he is As much a fix Ture on the Corner As the traffic Light he remembers when there was no traffic re members leading the neighbourhood mothers in a protest demonstration to have it he also remembers when the neighbourhood As be puts it of one now we have All All and its much just look at them be said beaming at his varied army of came to now York from Poland when he was v my name a Bunch of i in it i chained it to Batchoff Sal could Tutu it he started As a fruit didst for the and 33 years ago answered an and in the paper for an ice Cream thai work he i quit in the Winter i go to the Seidor citizens club and Hel Tki servus feel sorry for those people who dont just sit there and play id go As Long As my legs hold he doing a Illus shuffle on the Sam the ice Cream Man will be on this the dirty Bird and other obscenities baby Possum climbing up the Back of Duncan Wrights chair and onto his shoulder was Only mildly at least compared to the Mynah Bird screeching obscenities in this Concrete Duncan Wright is the head of the american society for the prevention of cruelly to who contributed to the delinquency of that Mynah somebody who thought teaching it filth was a its another form of that Bird can never have a it would get bounced from place to place As the Novelty wears that Why it was brought ill just keep it and will it Rind a Home a m of people would want to make a Pel of her but Shes her Mother was killed right Here in my Towa can you imagine were it a the our problem u ice oat we Doat when they Are old to Ough 1u take them probably and ton Beio Loose in be the irony of an Urban or even a trashy Mouth does Tut escape Duncan he is a Man of rare wit but of rare so the sad Ness Doest escape him take Harvey was brought to him because Harvey was Harvey bit Harvey is a Duncan with a designated Harvey As his personal attack Rabbit and uses the beast to help raise Money for the at a fund Raiser the other night at Madison Square Harvey bit three including basketball Star Willis but where others see Only the Duncan Wright sees reason for rabbits Arent Bora to somebody teased that Rabbit and made him the Way be tin problem is not with the Rabbit but with the person who would a he real problem is tha gelt close to what motivates Doncom which is opt just animal Bat All creatures great and especially people As a boy growing up in Duncan Wright never owned a he graduated from Loyola University of los Angeles As a physicist and worked at that profession for 20 at he got something More than a the jesuits gave me two one sense of commitment to fundamental the other a sensitivity to the obligation to commit myself to while t like my commitment is to humanity u All its so Duncan Wright gave up seven years ago and last year moved Newyork to head its is trat his idea of serving humanity the Asp a is i some say All that Duncan Wrights passion is but not in the we kill 14 million dogs and cats a a because theres nothing use to do with just ing them to the let somebody else do it for solve yourself of the let the cat have let the children see the Mir to to rather than you can separate its All of a society that encourages abuse of As ours will Liever solve in human turn your head when a kid throws an animal off the roof of a build just for and Yon can Damn Well bet that when Hes in or 17 heu be mugging people in the subway August 1977 gel a dog for the kids to Uke to the Beach on then leave it there what they come it happens All the its the live toy take a took at he tossed a plastic Ball the size of Canth Hupf into the air and caught you unscrew the Uke put a Kitten or a Gerbel put the Ball on the watch Lite frantic animal make it u u Doest kick it no every child should have Duncan Wrights voice it seems like a Small but a society unwilling to confront this will be unwilling to confront other social we All want to uplift but without up lifting All How can we1 its hard to argue such a Point with Duncan he might sic Harvey on the stars and stripes Page 13
