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...station to take him back to his sparsely furnished Harlem walkup, Reginald Andrews, 29, was deep in thought. Except for occasional work unloading produce, the father of eight had been unemployed for a year, and he was not optimistic about the job interview he had had that morning at Jamac Frozen Foods, a Manhattan food-delivery company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul of a Hero | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...blind from an injury suffered in combat during World War II, was tapping a metal cane to identify an open door. But when he mistook a space between two cars for a door, he toppled onto the track. The train was about to pull out. "My mind left Jamac and Christmas for the kids," recalled Andrews. "I knew what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul of a Hero | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

President Reagan, after reading a newspaper account of the rescue, telephoned his congratulations. "At first I thought it was Rich Little," said Andrews, who took the call in a storefront church next door because his own phone had been shut off for nonpayment. No less startled was Jamac Frozen Foods Vice President Edward Marbach. He also received a phone call from Reagan, who wanted to put in a good word for Andrews with a Jamac official. "I told him I'd already given him the job in my mind," recalled Marbach. (Andrews will report for work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul of a Hero | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...pleased. Ginsberg: "I'll go in the bathroom and watch television." Corso wonders if the bishop knows about "beer bottles that come in magic candlesticks. Is alligators holy, Bishop? Is everything holy? Are we all in heaven now and don't know about it? Jamambi, jamambi, jamambi, jamac." After that, the plot thins, but it is the flavor that matters. On the floor, walls, ceiling are "toothbrush cockroaches, coffee cockroaches, peanut butter cockroaches," and "the Empire State has fallen into the Gowanus Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENDSVILLE: Zen-Hur | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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