Galaxy Magazine (March 1952) by Galaxy

Author:Galaxy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 1952-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

ing the early morning of September 6th. That was about eleven hours after he got Mrs. Economy.

Thirteen of them were up at Broadway and 49th, walking through traffic. They went right through the cars. By nine o'clock there were two wrecks on that corner and a busted hydrant gushing water all over. The ghost people talked through the water and didn't get wet.

Three more showed up in front of a big delicatessen near 72nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, just looking in the window. Every once in a while one of them would reach in through the glass and grab for something, but his hand went through the pastrami and chopped liver, so none of them got anything. That was fine for store windows, but at wasn't so fine for the ghost people,

The other two were sailors. They were out in the harbor, walking on water and thumbing

their noses at naval officers aboard the ships that were anchored out there. It was hell on

discipline.

The first eight patrolmen who reported all this got told they would be fired if they ever came on duty drunk again. But by ten-thirty it was on the radio, and then WPIX sent a camera Crew up, and by the time the afternoon papers came out there .were so many people in Times

Square that we had to put a cordon around the ghosts and divert traffic.

The delicatessen window up on Amsterdam got busted from the crowd leaning against it, or some guy trying to put his hand through the way the three ghosts did; we never figured out which. There were about sixty tugs, launches and rowboats in the harbor, and three helicopters, trying to get close enough to talk to the sailors.

One thing we know, the Martian must have been in that crowd on Times Square, because

between one and one-thirty p. M. seven more ghosts wandered through the barrier and joined the other ones. You could tell they were mad, but of course you couldn't tell what they were saying unless you could read lips. Then there were some more down by Macy's in the afternoon, and a few in Greenwich Village, and by evening we had lost count. The guesses in the* papers that night ran from three hundred to a thousand. It was the Times that said three hundred. The cops didn't give out any estimate at all.

^T*HE next day, there was just

-*• nothing else at all in the papers, or on the radio or TV. Bars did an all-time record busi-ness. So did churches.

CATCH THAT MARTI A

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