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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kelly will take her leadership abilities back home to Garden City, N.Y., where she will teach math, and coach field hockey and girl's basketball at her former high school next fall. She calls those plans "a great chance to relax" before pursuing medical school goals the following year...
...better thanyours." What hasn't been explained to me iscrossing Mt. Auburn street to the strains fromtownies' cars of "Ch'ing ch'ong (sp.?) sianara(sp.?)" amplified and distorted by the Dopplereffect. More frightening was being accosted lateone night by very drunk and white Harvard men with"Hey China girl, let's see what's in yoursleeves." Ha, ha, ha, ha, HA. "What makes youthink you're any better than me?" my mind screams,as my silent Asian face burns red, turned down tothe ground. Things haven't changed so much sincegrade school...
...thirteen-year old little girl named Marguerite Poirier was attacked by a wild, wolf-like beast as she tended to her flocks in the small French village of Paulot, in the province of Guyenne. Later that month a strange boy, Jean Grenier, was brought before the local judge for the crime. The wolfish animal, it was thought by the locals, had been young Jean. For Jean, it seems, was a werewolf...
Margaret Bourke-White's position behind her camera attracted attention that often rivaled the interest commanded by her subjects. She made headlines almost from the moment her career took off: THIS DARING CAMERA GIRL SCALES SKYSCRAPERS FOR ART. In the early 1940s, Hollywood issued a number of films based roughly on Bourke-White's character or exploits and starring the likes of Tallulah Bankhead, Claudette Colbert and Ann Sheridan. When, in the 1950s, she contracted Parkinson's disease and underwent an experimental operation to arrest her deterioration, she shared her experience with LIFE readers and inspired a TV drama called...
Such brilliant success, according to popular wisdom, must have left dark and dreadful shadows. Biographer Vicki Goldberg, an art and photography critic, has indeed dug behind the Bourke-White legend to find some details that the daring camera girl chose not to develop in her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). But these snippets hardly amount to the negative image of a triumphant life. Bourke-White did not outdistance her wildest dreams; she plotted her course to the top, assessed the costs along the way and willingly paid them...