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In the Bin: Zuckerman Unbound
OF THE FRONT WINDOWS of his new apartment, Nathan Zuckerman could see down to the corner of his street to Frank E. Campbell, the Madison Avenue funeral parlor where they process for disposal the richest, most glamorous, and most celebrated of New York’s deceased. On display in the chapel this May morning lay a gangland figure,