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...Williams offered to take Coles with him to make house visits. Armed with his black doctor's bag, his "great coat" and his notebook, Williams tended to the poor and sick of Paterson's tenement houses with Coles by his side...
...Holyoke Street carrying on my shoulder my thick, white Navy sea bag...
...subject or mood. Other collections simply gather under one set of covers whatever their authors have been writing since the last time their works were similarly bound together. Carol Shields' Dressing Up for the Carnival (Viking; 210 pages; $23.95), her third book of tales, is of the latter, grab-bag variety, offering 22 pieces, almost all of them culled from previous publications. And yet the result is not as random or eclectic as might be anticipated. Shields, whose novel The Stone Diaries won a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, displays in all her writing, long or short, a consistently whimsical...
...caller from Cabot Library reported that her bag had been stolen. The caller said she saw a 20-year-old, 5' 10" black male wearing a grey jacket or sweatshirt, possibly with a goatee, in the area. The bag was later recovered in the stacks, but without the victim's wallet...
...weekend camping trip with his Boy Scout troop. We arrived at 8 in the evening. The boys were in their tents, and the scoutmaster, assistant scoutmaster and two father chaperones were in a camper trailer drinking whiskey sours; the scoutmaster was pretty well in the bag. I reluctantly left my son there and worried all weekend about his being supervised by that group of "morally straight" men. I would have been far happier to have him in the care of a responsible gay scoutmaster like James Dale [who is suing the Boy Scouts to admit openly gay men and boys...