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Campbell leaves his wife. Catherine (Saverse); four daughters. Kathryn Lesica of Franklin, Sharon Boyle of Bedford and Diane Campbell and Anne Ronaye, both of Arlington; a son, Daniel L. Campbell Jr. of Arlington; two sisters, Margaret Gibbs of Wareham and Pearl Venard of Lowell: two brothers, Joseph Campbell of California and Harold Campbell of Connecticut: and two grandchildren...
...spring of '57, Haster and "Babe" Simourian and the other guys on the baseball team took a seven-hour ride to Princeton's Bedford Field. The Tigers had a good squad, and this day they had their pitching ace, John Finnegan, on the mound...
...Bedford Field was fenceless. The diamond was part of the practice fields for football and soccer, and this meant that if a person was to hit a home run, he had to really knock it so that the outfielders couldn't chase it down. A smart outfield would make this doubly difficult by backing way out into the grass, for a dangerous hitter, sometimes so far that you couldn't even hear their between-pitch chatter...
...schoolteacher in Bedford Stuyvesant, I can fully attest to the many other troubled teen-agers like Baby Love in that area [Oct. 12]. The saddest part is that the kids aren't aware of another way of life. They simply do not have a choice...
Baby Love inhabits a world few white folks ever see, a Dickensian hell of cheap thrills, senseless deaths and almost unrelieved hopelessness. He lives in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant section, one of the oldest black settlements in the U.S. Unlike the burned and ravaged South Bronx, ten miles to the north, Bedford Stuyvesant does not resemble a war zone; most of its owner-occupied row houses, brownstones and churches are more or less intact. But high unemployment and a 60% dropout rate among black high school students make it a very dangerous place. One Bed-Stuy precinct, the 77th...