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Clark Morres says he is "exactly one half" Indian. On the dresser in his room there is a collection of photographs of his relatives, half of them Indian, half of them white. On one wall, he has tacked up posters of nature scenes and Elton John; on the opposite wall there is a drawing of a grim-faced Indian, with the inscription, "All we ask is to be allowed to live in peace--Dull Knife, Northern Cheyenne...
Jack's father, John, whose forebears came from County Cork, was a part-time window dresser, a sometime sign painter. He was also an alcoholic who had moved out of the house in Neptune, N.J., shortly after his only son was born...
...abruptly drummed out ten years later when she was caught smoking. In fact, she had already been corrupted by American comic books and rock-'n'-roll records sent her by an uncle who lived in Syracuse, N.Y. She left school for a $5-a-week window-dresser's job and sang at night in local pubs. In one of them she met her boy friend, Guitarist Les Harvey. Together they joined a rock group that became Stone the Crows...
EMILY SCHWARTZ HARRIS. Remembered by her Alpha Chi Omega sorority sisters at Indiana University as a "good dresser," she taught junior high school English for a year in Bloomington. Last year she and her husband William moved to Berkeley. She worked as a clerk typist at the University of California and became deeply involved in radical activities. She headed the Oakland Chino Defense Committee, which raised funds for the legal defense of members of the Venceremos and others accused of aiding a prison escape...
...star wearing his black Ultrasuede tuxedo alongside a life-size poster advertising the entertainer's two-week Manhattan engagement. But Joel's wife Jo was unfazed. "Why don't you take the picture now?" she suggested. So the camera clicked and Sharp Dresser Joel was caught for posterity wearing only a bath towel...