Grand Central Terminal by Anthony W. Robins

Author:Anthony W. Robins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2016-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

“At Grand Central Terminal, they call him ‘Mr. Courtesy.’ Among his friends are Red Caps and royalty, campers and commuters, President Eisenhower, Sophie Tucker and Cardinal Spellman. He is Edward George Fischer, the terminal’s general station master.… As head of a terminal that handles 5,000,000 passengers each month, Mr. Fischer is in charge of a 700-man work force. He must see that 543 trains get in and out daily, and he must soothe complainers about a variety of malfunctions that range from a lack of hot water on the Twentieth Century Limited [the luxury New York Central train connecting New York and Chicago] to a train that was late. He must be patient and informed when he meets reporters trying to beat a deadline on a holiday travel story, and must be calm with excited people who lose all sorts of items.”

—NEW YORK TIMES, AUGUST 22, 1958

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