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Before working in the cab, Mack had been a journalist, reporting on the New York state legislature for United Press International (UPI), and covering conventions and demonstrations in the '60s with an NBC camera...
...Bronze Star for bravery in combat against the Germans in the last days of the Second World War. But in 1990, back on his feet and out of the taxi, Mack wrote an article for Harvard Magazine that began: "I didn't know tough until I drove a cab in New York City...
...went, and sure enough Old Harry came out," he says. "We walked around, and the streets were empty, but the cab drivers and guys in the sanitation trucks would yell, 'Hi, Harry, how ya doin'?" It was an interesting experience...
Mack became a freelance journalist in 1974. He says he was attempting to create Newsletters Unlimited--a commercial newsletter company--when he decided to supplement his income by driving a cab...
...broke, trying to get the business underway, and driving a cab is the kind of job you can just go out and get," he says. "It was the first time I wasn't moving paper from an 'in' box to an 'out box--I felt like I was really doing something...