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Betty Zollars Houston
Today, the dirty secrets are no longer being kept. Victims of private violence are talking?to police, prosecutors, counselors, friends, one another?and U.S. society is trying to help. Private violence is becoming less private. Thus, while reports of child abuse in Florida, for example, rose from 35,301 in...
There is clearly a class bias against the poor in the reporting of child-abuse cases. Doctors, teachers and police are less likely to accuse affluent families of beating or molesting their children even when the evidence is clear. Clinics and social-welfare agencies deal more frequently with the poor...
An extraordinary number of abuse cases involve guns or knives. In Los Angeles, Harry Whalen, 48, a curtain installer, is serving a 15-year-to-life sentence for killing his fourth wife, Betty, 35. She was hiding in a Long Beach, Calif, women's shelter, seeking a divorce. Whalen caught...
In his collaborations with George, and with a host of other composers including Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Kurt Weill and Vernon Duke, Ira could write lyrics that appeared clumsy or cliched; he could skip or cram syllables into a melodic line. But no lyricist used slang phrases earlier or as...