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The photo was taken by Times staff photographer George Tames (1919 - 1994)

a "sad-faced youth with sunken cheeks

told reporters waiting at Grand Central that the train made "Chicago a suburb of New York

A few even remember what his initials stand for: Yelberton Abraham

Even jadded New Yorkers might have done a double take on this rainy night in Times Square with a towering "Edge of Doom" sign nearby

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