Dreamsicle

He gives the kids free samples

Because he knows full well.

That today's young innocent faces

Will be tomorrow's clientele.

--Tom Lehrer

The ice cream man is part of pop Americana--jingling down suburban streets on summer afternoons or just after dinnertime, dispensing Tutti-Frutti and Frostee Shakes to flocks of neighborhood children.

Vendor Thomas George, 44, was accustomed to sell such sweet delights at a neighborhood park in The Bronx. But the New York City police suspected him of peddling an illegal variation of the dreamsicle. Last week a patrolman staked out George's truck and arrested him for allegedly selling heroin to a teen-aged customer. Police claimed that the Good Humor Man also had 81 horse-race betting tickets and eight more packets of heroin in his truck. Who is left whom little children can trust?

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