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When his father died in November 1963, he searched for an appropriate memorial. "I remembered the incident of the lost glove, and it occurred to me that gloves are a powerful symbol because being warm is being well-off and being cold is being poor. At that time there weren't as many homeless people on the streets, and so I immediately thought of the Bowery, and I decided to put a pair of gloves on some poor fellow's hands just as my father had slipped free Danish rolls into customers' bags." Greenberg was then teaching sixth grade...
...Brooklyn bakery. "My father would often include a coffee cake or a sandwich in the bag without his customer's knowing," he says. "He would always tell us, 'Don't deprive yourself of the joy of giving.' " Money was short, and Michael has a searing recollection of losing a glove while helping bring supplies into the store on a bitterly cold morning. "I was never able to find it, and for years I went around without gloves. I never asked my father to replace them because I felt so guilty...
...Greenberg left teaching for the advertising business, and with a higher salary he could afford to buy gloves regularly; if they were on sale, he bought in bulk. For the next ten years the Bowery became his route every November and December. In 1976 he was in the subway, taking two bags containing $220 worth of newly purchased gloves back to his office, when someone grabbed the gloves and ran. He reported the theft to the police, the New York Times heard of the incident, and for the first time the world read about the "glove...
...result of that and many other television and newspaper stories, Greenberg has been inundated with gloves. A Girl Scout troop held a glove drive for him. A Colorado ski resort sent him its entire lost-and-found department. And when a story about him appeared in the International Herald Tribune four years ago, gloves flowed in, from Europe to India: leather gloves, driving gloves, fleece-lined gloves, children's gloves, even work gloves. Some people send pairs, but most often they send only rights or lefts (the rights outnumber the lefts by four to one, for some curious reason). Some...
...search for a monument to rival New York's Statue of Liberty and St. Louis' Gateway Arch, the city of Los Angeles last week came up with something so bizarre that visitors may never forget it. After surveying about 150 entries, including a giant bird, a gargantuan baseball glove and a towering fountain of water, the selection committee settled on Steel Cloud, designed by New York architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture. When the first stage is completed in 1992, the $33 million glass-and-steel structure will rise up to twelve stories above the Hollywood Freeway in downtown...