NEW YORK, Nov. 21 -- On a recent cloudy day, Bill White, an upright man with a buzz cut, stared from a pier on Manhattan's West Side into the Hudson River. A crane and bucket dropped into the murky water and out again in rhythm: Collect mud, swing across, open clamshell, release. And again. -
A Veteran of the Pacific, Mired in the Hudson
NEW YORK, Nov. 21 -- On a recent cloudy day, Bill White, an upright man with a buzz cut, stared from a pier on Manhattan's West Side into the Hudson River. A crane and bucket dropped into the murky water and out again in rhythm: Collect mud, swing across, open clamshell, release. And again.-
By Robin Shulman