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Residents of Holmes and Comstock, another North building, said recently they have not had a hot shower since returning to school in September...
...lawyer's advice, Sy pleaded guilty and was committed to the Elmira Correctional Facility. So began his tour of New York State prisons. By the time he celebrated his 41st birthday last April 18, he had spread 17 years of his life among institutions in Elmira, Comstock, Dannemora, Auburn, Stormville and now Attica, famous Attica...
There is no doubt of it. Even today you see the indignation rising in him as he recalls the cigarette borrower. He talks with his hands; a swallow would be lost in them. Transferred to Comstock after the Elmira incident, Sy was involved in another fight for which he says he was given 45 days in the "strip cell" (one meal every third day, no clothes but shorts and a T shirt, sleep on the floor). Eventually he stopped fighting, but served five years anyway, developing a new opinion of himself. "I didn't like what I was becoming...
...study, published in the current issue of the American Journal of Public Health, was conducted by three researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Knud J. Helsing, Moyses Szklo and George W. Comstock followed the lives of 1,204 men and 2,828 women in semi-rural Washington County, Md., who were widowed between 1963 and 1974. With each spouse's death, the survivor was matched with a still married person, cross-referenced for comparison not only by race, sex and age, but also by such factors as years of schooling, age at first...
...been stricken with upset stomachs. The graduation caps, the matron suggested, would make convenient containers during the afternoon ceremony. Fortunately, all the caps stayed pinned to the graduates' heads. And the Radcliffe Class of '30, the 47th class to graduate from that college, crossed the platform to shake President Comstock's hand, stepped off the college stage and entered the sobering realities of the Depression...