Each day of last year's 366 Thomas F. Coffey, acting lieutenant of New York's police force in charge of traffic death records, feared that he would turn up a report reading: COFFEY, JANE: father, COFFEY, Thomas F.
Last week he cast up his 1932 total: 1,031 deaths, 262 of them children; his daughters Jane and Marian were still unhurt. But thoughts of other fathers' 262 children railroaded through Thomas F. Coffey's brain—2.6.2 . . . 2.6.2 . . . 2.6.2 . . . 2.6.2. . . .
Next morning Acting Lieut. Coffey, 47, put on civilian...
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