"If anybody has any doubts that Joe Louis arrived in New York on Thursday those doubts were quickly dispelled by the milling mob of humanity that packed Seventh Avenue and came pretty near pushing in the windows of Bill Garret's barber shop at 2311 Seventh Avenue... After resting up a bit in his private retreat, Joe felt the need of a haircut... It was easy for the Brown Bomber to get into the shop, but it took him fully an hour trying to get out, for word had flashed all over nearby Seventh and Lenox Avenues that the Detroit Destroyer was in town."