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From the newsstand just down the block emerged a kid named "Woim" with suspenders on and oversized cap pushed to one side, carrying a load of newspapers and yelling, "Extra, extra, read all about it! Spitz Out!" The headline made him cringe twice. First, he had lost his day job. Second, he had paid out good money and one of the conditions was that they were swallowers. Wasn't "No. 9" obscure and Beatlesque enough to have gone unnoticed as a nickname? After all he had foregone his first choice..."NYGuv." And had abandoned the moniker "Lewinsky" early on...
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