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Mr K and the Super is the emotionally moving sometimes hilarious recollections of a newly married ex GI recently enrolled at Columbia of his service as super of two New York City apartment buildings in the early 1950 s The two buildings were a bubbling cauldron of emotions ambitions and high jinks ruled by Mr K a Polish emigrant landlord actively conspiring to overthrow the communist regime of his homeland Mr K sought to control his domain with a lease whose thou shalt not clauses put the Ten Commandments to shamebut utterly failed to tame the assorted energies and desires of his creative tenants These tenants included the Major a retired British officer who wrote mysteries with erotic themes that he surreptitiously tested on his fellow tenants and his wife an expert on many occult arts Perhaps most energetic were two young Princeton grads who sold space for LIFE magazine who assiduously sought to date and bed nubile young things at least every weekend Their antics resulted in a fishing expedition that culminated in a memorable roof top fight of feral cats and through their real or imagined sex lives triggered a LIFE goes to a Party feature story in their building These and similar stories are offset by the tragic story of the beautiful Anastasia and the emotionally moving stories of the Uncle and the Niece and Waldo the Wondrous Read on These and other long ago tenants of 6 and 8 West 9th Street are anxious to share their equally interesting stories Mr K and the Super A Fictionalized Account of a Student Super in New York City in the Early 1950sMr K and the SuperI was asked to read this book by the author Frank Dressler who I know through our local church It is delightful Imagine a young man early twenties and the people he would have encountered in 1952 in a brownstone apartment in New York City European refugees G. Mr. k and the super ebook free download s collectors aspiring actors lunatics you name it The stories are told with the dry whit and intellect of a man of great character and fine skill Enter the world of his youth and let him take you back to a time and place rich with diversity and unexpected foibles You will never again associate the 50s exclusively with Leave it to Beaver Paperback