(CNN) -- A line of angry protesters waving signs and wearing scows formed a ring around the front entrance of the Daily News' headquarters.

They took turns at the bullhorn accusing the paper of everything from libel to genocide. They didn't bring a list of demands; they weren't looking to negotiate. They had one goal: to shut the paper down forever.

"We're going to march until the walls come down," one shouted.

Employees who would normally head out the revolving door to one of the lunch trucks along Broad street developed a taste for cafeteria food that day.

Not Chuck Stone.

Stone, senior editor of the newspaper they had pledged to kill, walked out the front entrance and met their scows with a broad smile. Picketers committed to the complete destruction of the Daily News returned his smile or nodded in recognition as they passed him. A few even shook his hand.

I'll never forget that scene. It was, at once, improbable yet typical of a man who was as comfortable in the salons of power as he was in the embrace of the disadvantaged.

Chuck was the last man you'd pick out of a lineup of guys suspected of aiding and abetting dangerous felons. In his horn-rimmed glasses, hand-tied, silk bowties and graying crew cut, he looked like a grown-up version of the nerds that tough guys used to beat up to burnish their reps.

But fugitives who were wanted for vicious assaults and heinous crimes would call Chuck before they called their lawyers. In a town where some cops were known to administer curbside justice, surrendering to Chuck Stone was a way to keep from having their faces rearranged on the way to jail. At least 75 fugitives did just that over Stone's 19-year career.

1. What newspaper is the subject of the article?
2. What was happening at their main office building?
3. Did the protestors want to negotiate?
4. What did they want?
5. What did they accuse the Daily News of?
6. Who came out of the building to meet the protestors?
7. What was his job?
8. Did he look angry?
9. Did they protestors act aggressively towards him?
10. What did they do?
11. What did Chuck look like?
12. What was he wearing?
13. Who did Chuck often work with?
14. When did they call him?
15. Why?
16. How many did he help?
17. In how long a period of time?
18. Does Chuck look like he would do that kind of job?
19. Does the reporter think the scene was memorable?
20. How does he describe it?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. The Daily News
2. A protest
3. No
4. to shut the paper down forever
5. everything from libel to genocide
6. Chuck Stone
7. senior editor of the newspaper
8. No
9. No
10. They returned his smile, nodded in recognition or shook his hand.
11. a grown-up version of the nerds that tough guys used to beat up
12. horn-rimmed glasses and hand-tied, silk bowties
13. fugitives
14. before they called their lawyers
15. the cops were often violent and Chuck Stone could help
16. at least 75
17. 19 years
18. No
19. Yes
20. improbable yet typical