"Send a reporter to 815 Market Street if you want to see a slacker beaten up:" the city desk of the St. Louis Star was anonymously advised by telephone one day last week.
At that address a Star newshawk found a crowd standing outside the Coffee Mug restaurant run by one Max Komen who served 5¢ breakfasts, 15¢ lunches. In the centre of the crowd stood a 200-lb, jobless cook named Robert Wright. Yelled Cook Wright: "I asked that * Komen where his Blue Eagle was. He said 'To hell with...
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