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...princes had so long reserved the right to murder with impunity." Yet there has always been a democracy of homicide. Ever since Cain slew Abel, murder has been a classless crime. The East Harlem father who hurls his children from the roof is paralleled across the Hudson in the affluent New Jersey suburbs: a Westfield insurance salesman named John List was indicted last winter on a charge of shooting his wife, mother and three children and ranging four of the bodies side by side in his mansion's empty ballroom...
...YOUNGER generation is moving from South Boston out to Field's Corner and Ashmont, to replace the more affluent Irish who escaped to suburbs. James Michael was lucky he died when he did, still mourned by a generation of the faithful, who flocked to his big house on the Jamaicaway to pay their last respects. No longer does the Irish mayor receive his people, solve their problems, dole out money from his own pocket for funerals, make the round of wakes, bully the bankers and stomp into the Somerset Club to confront the State Street money. What passes for Irish...
...were once called rednecks, have started to work with blacks in politics. Says Atlanta's vice mayor, Maynard Jackson, a black: "The poor white is beginning to tell himself that it is not enough just to be white. He sees, through television and other media, an America more affluent than ever before. And between that affluence and his own miserable life lies a chasm of despair." At the same time, many unions remain unyielding in opening their ranks to blacks, while white-black clashes in mixed schools and neighborhoods appear to be on the increase throughout the country. Especially...
...Women's Wear Daily, the brash and breezy tabloid trade paper, last week acquired a new standard-newspaper-size sibling called W, a fortnightly that Publisher John Fairchild says is aimed at "an audience of intellectually affluent women in the U.S. and abroad." Priced at 50?, or $7.50 a year, W contains lavish color illustrations and a collage of fashion and gossip dedicated to what the beautiful people of both sexes are saying, wearing and doing. The first issue, well seeded with ads, went to 70,000 charter subscribers, and Editor Michael Coady sees circulation rising...
...about Groton and dear Dwight," young Anne Morrow writes to her sister from Smith College. "He was so sweet and dear and such fun." With a certain pleasant gush, these fragments evoke an age-the long-gone innocence of growing up in Englewood, N.J., in an atmosphere of affluent rectitude and Jamesian family tours of the Continent...