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James Johnston was Bruce's son, and he vanished soon after rumors began circulating that he, like his brother Bruce Jr., 20, known to the family as "Little Bruce," had turned on his father. The boys had been raised by Grandmother Harriet Steffy and Great-Aunt Sarah Martin. "They didn't start hanging around with their father until a couple of years ago," recalled the grandmother. "I prayed for them, but I guess they just liked having money in their pockets...
Little Bruce, meanwhile, had been released from prison when he threatened to stop providing evidence against his father if authorities kept him from Robin. Bruce Sr. made three trips to Harriet Steffy's house looking for Bruce and Robin. "He told me that he didn't want to hurt them," Mrs. Steffy recounted. "He said he would give $12,000 to Little Bruce if he told the police he had been on dope when he testified and that it wasn't true that his daddy led that gang. But I told him that I didn' think...
More: Society had slumped into a posture of cynical disbelief; no, the search for spiritual illumination was epidemic and had grown so fervent (so Columnist Harriet Van Home claimed last week) that it was endangering the state-church separation. The moral permissiveness achieved in the '60s was ripening into generalized decadence; no, not only was fidelity growing fashionable once again, but television was even cutting back on sex and violence for fear of losing the mass audience...
...building in Radcliffe Yard. It is difficult to give an exact number because of the nature of the collections, which range in size from half a file box to 188 linear feet and in subject from a very extensive collection of etiquette and cook books to the letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Betty Friedan...
...connections as a result of cleaning homes that she started her own catering service. "People can use this type of job as a steppingstone," she says. "It's a fast way to make money and it's the type of job you can always find." Fred and Harriet Hoffman, who once employed servants of their own, turned to domestic work when Fred's antique business faltered. At $10 an hour, they make enough to afford a $50,000 Fort Lauderdale town-house-one very similar to those they clean...