"THE SURPRISE FACTOR"
The winter of 1938 was one of the crudest in New York. But especially the snowfall of November 27 was noteworthy. Snowflakes the size of golf balls fell that night. Just right before dawn it stopped snowing but the sky remained overcast the next day and in the early morning almost one foot of snow covered the streets. That day few people dared to leave their homes, and in the section of Fifth Avenue that goes from 44th Street (past St. Patrick's Cathedral) to 79th Street, the accumulated snow was not the only reason. The police received hundreds of calls warning of the presence on that place of a kind of primate more than six feet high with a broad-shouldered frame working their way through the snow like it was nothing. On that area lived influential people, hence the mayor received the information firsthand. And what did the mayor do about it? Naturally, he called ENIGMA CONSULTANTS S.L. So, as other brave citizens had done to move that day through the city, Michael and Jacob put...