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Article: Subway laugh track nears end of line: Conductor kept riders rolling with fun. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- August 26, 1993
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NEW YORK _ The complete catalog of Harry Nugent's achievements is contained in the singular fact that on the New York City subway he makes people smile.
The standard rules of subway conduct mandate that there be as little human interaction as possible. It is a grim-faced, slope-shouldered world where people barricade their humanity behind newspapers, books, headphones, catnaps and distant stares.
The only use most people have for a conductor is that he open the doors when they reach their stop, or that he hold them open long enough for them to get off.
Not Nugent. On a Harry Nugent train you can hear chuckles sprouting up everywhere, because, with Harry as ...
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