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Chapter 1, Ferryslip

• Bud Korpenning has just moved from upstate New York to New York City and is looking for a job.

• Ed Thatcher visits the hospital where his wife Susie is delivering their first child, a girl named Ellen.

• Ed meets a man with a heavy German accent named Zucher on his way down the hospital stairs.

• The two of them go out for drinks to celebrate their newborn children.

• Zucher leaves the bar, sticking Ed with the bill.
• An unidentified bearded man, possibly Jewish, walks into a drugstore and buys a safety razor.

• He returns to his home and shaves.

• When his wife and children enter, they are highly surprised with the man's new look

Chapter 2, Metropolis

• Ed makes junior partner in his firm and starts building a savings account for Ellen.

• Ed sees that a fire has broken out in a nearby building.

• He observes an...

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