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Show WALTER W1JSCHELL Cast of Characters in the Bio; Town The producer who lunches daily with his two ex-wives. . . . Chinatown's China-town's citizens idling away a Sunday Sun-day afternoon sipping rice wine and playing fan-tan. . . . Comely gypsy maidens near Tompkins Square garbed in colorful native costumes. ... The hot sweet potato vendors on Mulberry Square. . . . Union Square's open-air forums where anyone can join the verbal free-for-all. Shady lawyers hanging around courts, hoping to pick up homicide cases. They're called "thousand dollar men." A thouz is the established fee for an attorney allotted by the court to defend an accused murderer. A community of families who live on barges anchored in East river. Some rent extra cabins to boarders. . . . The depressing migration of derelicts to Bowery fleabags every evening. They seldom speak to each other. Miserable humans in night court the worst possible advert for the human hu-man race. . , . Prisoners delivered to police headquarters via a back door and whisked into hidden elevators. . . . Cocky prisoners in the police lineup who crack iokes in hope of creating "a favorable atmosphere." Gents who carry gum - tipped poles to pluck coins dropped in cellars. cel-lars. The city's version of a beachcomber. beach-comber. . . Trafficops refereeing the midtown traffic tussle. |