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...report was entitled The Negro Family: The Case for National Action. It was written by me (I was then Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy Planning and Research), with the assistance of Paul Barton and Ellen Broderick of the Policy Planning Staff. It was an internal document entirely: intended for the Secretary of Labor, the President, and the members of their staffs who would accept or reject its proposals and implications. A hundred copies were produced, but with on expectation of using even that few. The objectives of the report were twofold. First: to argue the need for seizing...
...teen-agers get married? And what goes wrong? Pennsylvania State University Professor Carlfred Broderick sees it beginning when they decide to go steady (more than half do), terms this "the beginning of the end." Says Broderick: "It takes little or no effort to get more and more involved; before they know it, they are slipping and sliding into marriage." For boys, sex is the driving force (at least 35% of teenage brides are pregnant when they marry); the stronger the moral code, the more likely that the teen-ager will marry early...
...Hackett intuitively lights up every scene she is in. And Shirley Knight, as Polly, reads gentle truth into every word and gesture. Leading the second rank, Candice Bergen, as the Lesbian "Lakey," is a stunning presence. Most important of the men in their lives are Larry Hagman and James Broderick, with Hal Holbrook contributing some solemn hilarity as a failed leftist philanderer who seems unable to assimilate the benefits of psychoanalysis...
...always in the middle of the big cops-and-robbers shootouts. When Francis ("Two-Gun") Crowley was holed up, Broderick gave him two hours to surrender, then marched up to the building and found himself facing Crowley's pistol. He flattened the gunman with a punch before Crowley could find the courage to shoot...
Died. John Joseph Broderick, 72, the toughest cop on Broadway in the turbulent 1930s; of a heart attack; in Middletown...