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What do Benjamin Kubelsky, Israel Iskowitz and Nathan Birnbaum have in common? Ditto Julius Garfinkle, Issur Danielovich and Bernard Schwartz? Also Laszlo Lowenstein, Jill Oppenheim, Muni Weisenfreund and Betty Joan Perske?
This was some time back, Betty Jane Curry was explaining, "back in the hippie days." A long-haired transient blew through town--the little town of Cuba in the mountains of northwestern New Mexico--and made the fatal mistake of sexually assaulting one of Cuba's young women. Betty Jane...
It was one of the few times in the 22 years and six months since the first issue of the News was birthed that it found itself at the center of controversy. "They gave Marrietta a hard time over that one," Betty Jane said. Betty Jane is the monthly publication...
"I guess from the very beginning we decided we didn't want to get in any trouble," said Editor Marrietta Standridge. "In a town this size you can't afford to lose half your business," said Peggy Ohler, who is the paper's artist and Betty Jane's daughter.
Sayer's jazz drummer father, Gerry, and Betty, her frazzled mother, are bottle buddies who happen to have three small children. When her parents split, Sayer's freewheeling childhood descends into a grim saga: she moves from suburb to suburb, school to school, always at the mercy of Betty's...