1963

A report issued by Frank Wohl, Federal administrator of New York's Fulton Fish market, places the blame for widespread corruption at the market squarely at the doorstep of the New York City government, according to the story in The New York Times. Frank's report said the market "was in the clutches of a small number of people who dictated how fish and seafood could be unloaded from delivery tracks and who charged extortionate fees for their services. Strong-arm tactics are discouraging suppliers and driving up retail prices," the report said. Frank argues the city officials are not regulating and policing the market as they should. He plans to impose rales to help suppliers and businesses operate without intimidation. The city denied Frank's allegations, saying they had improved the most glaring problems, particularly sanitation, parking, and traffic, and had increased police patrols. A New York lawyer, Frank was named by a Federal judge in 1988 to monitor conditions at the market with the power to ban people from working or doing business there and to get some rules on how fish was delivered to wholesalers and sold to retailers. His appointment, according to The Times, was considered part of a fresh strategy to drive out organized crime by using civil-court procedures rather than criminal indictments. Frank has two years to finish the job.

Meanwhile uptown Sid Caesar, the ageless comic wonder, closed out a successful return with Imogene Coca before an enthusiastic audience at Michael's Pub that included Ron and Peggy Schecter, of Montclair, N.J. It seems that Peggy, a great admirer of Imogene, had written her a letter when Peggy was 10, and received a beautifully illustrated card from Imogene as a reply. Recently they corresponded and Peggy had come personally to meet Imogene after the show and present her with the card. Ron looked great, the result of living successfully in two professional worlds—music and law. Part of the week he toils in the world of contracts and torts, the other part he is immersed in the cello, playing in chamber ensembles around the metropolitan area. Peggy is a flutist and daughter Nicole is in her first year at Carleton College in Minnesota.

As for Caesar, in his familiar role of the German professor, he told the audience that the performer he admired the most was the freat Hans Schnorkel, who constantly reearsed every performance till he got it right—down to the split second. Once the great Schnorkel got into a pool with a live killer shark and stared at the shark and stared and stared till it rolled over on its belly. "Really," exclaimed the breathless interviewer. "And then the shark ate Schnorkel completely," said the matter-of-fact Caesar, "devoured him." "But how do you explain that?" asked the let-down reporter. "Everybody knows you never, never rehearse with a shark," replied Caesar. "A little white-fish or smoked salmon, maybe, but never a shark." You had to be there.

Jim Cappio, formerly president of Ryobi Motor Products Corp. in Pickens, S.C., has decided to make the 75-mile commute from his home in Greenville, S.C., to serve as president of the W.S. Tyler Company in Gastonia, N.C. While oldest son Jim is at Eckerd College, wife Claire has plenty of company with three other sons at home.

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