NOVEMBER 25. 1979 THE CAROLINA TIMEb i
NKW BOOK
Last July, someone mugged a New York mailman and stole
his master key to all the mailboxes in a densely populated and
highly affluent section of the city. The mail is more vulnerable
than you realize. Especially during the Christmas crush
Raia, snow, sleet and gloom of night .may not stay that
courier, but robbery certainly puts a damper on his appointed
rounds. s . . -
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022 by Steven Kahn, in the
tradition of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, is the story1,
of the largest mail heist in history, planned and brilliantly ex-l
ecuted in less than an hour by three white collar ex-cons who met'
in Danbury Prison, New York, NY 10022 the FDR zoneis;
the most lucrative zip code district in Manhattan and the first;
Monday of the month its heaviest day.
While the grand theft stumps federal agents, business slows,
traffic jams, and anxious New Yorkers wait beside empty mail
boxes. The clues are scant until one ex-con'S wife uses a batch
of stolen $2 bills to pay for an expensive fur coat.
About the Author:
A "writer-lawyer-entrepreneur; all on-going" Steve Kahn was
born in New York, and now lives in Connecticut with his wife
and their son. At the age of 11, Kahn was a nationally syn
dicated columnist for the old International News Service (INS),
and now writes "Steve Kahn's SUPERSCENE"TM, a na
tionally syndicated column fqr the. New York Times Syndication
Sales Corporation, which reaches over nine million people. In
between, he published the first American magazine on the
Beatles, owned a youth publishing and marketing company,!
wrote and produced the Miss American Teenager Pageant for
' the ABC Television Network, and created the comic spinoffs of
"The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" for
MCAUniversal. Kahn isiilso the author of The Homeowner's
Record Book.
Published by Pocket Books, 1230 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, N.Y. 10020, December$2.50.
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HOLLYWOOD New York Yankee superstar, Reggie Jackson found his match as he arm
wrestled with Gary Coleman recently. Watching are fellow cast members on "Diff rent Strokes",
Todd Bridges and Dana Plato. UPI Photo
Richard Pryor At Helm of
'Best Of Saturday Night Live' Show
Actor-comedian, Richard
Pryor, has won both ain Emmy
and a Grammy Award as a
comedy writer and prer
former, is the featured guest
host on the Wednesday,
November 28, edition of NBC
TV's "The Best of Saturday
Night Live" (10-11 p.m.
NYT).
A musical guest for the
show will be announced.
Pryor joins the "Saturday
Night Live" repertory com
pany Dan Aykroyd, John
Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane
Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill
Murray, Laraine Newman and
Gilda Radner in a series of
sketches including the classic
"Samurai Hotel, in which he
portrays a Japanese bellhop to
Belushi 's Oriental warrior.
Pryor, who hosted
"Saturday Night Live" during
the first' season December
13, 1975 also plays a
minister in a skit titled
"Exorcist II, ' which features
Laraine as a possessed young
woman.
With Chevy as a personnel
interviewer, Pryor applies for
a job and is subjected to a
strange brand of interroga
tion, in "Wprd Association."
Also on tap is a "Family' skit, i
with Pryor, Dan, Jane, John
and Gilda commenting on the ;
progressive moves being made
by blacks in America. Chevy
also demonsrates one of his
famous falls, while Pryor
delivers to monolouges, in
cluding a memorable "wino"
routine.
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1608 in Jamestown, Virginia.
Operated by both German
and Polish glass experts, the
factory remained in operation
for only seven years. It seems
the workmen found it more
lucrative to grow tobacco!
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