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...crime, its pollution and impersonality, its high social anger. Suddenly, he recalls, "the whole area where I grew up seemed old and drab." Bachelor Matsinger went home, packed and headed for the Southwest. Today he is happily settled in Tucson, Ariz., where he works as a mason's helper...
Died. Anna Roosevelt Halsted, 69, oldest child and only daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; of cancer; in New York City. When she was 15 and her father was stricken with poliomyelitis, the devoted Anna became his helper and ultimately his close associate. In 1926 she married Curtis B. Ball, a New York stockbroker, whom she divorced after eight years and two children. She next married John Boettiger, a Chicago Tribune correspondent and acrimonious critic of the New Deal. The couple moved to Seattle, where he became publisher of the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and she edited the women...
Meeker's helper, Thaddäus Kobrzynski, 26, literally threw the wounded girl into the cabin. An instant later, the girl's mother also stumbled, apparently wounded. Kobrzynski sprinted 100 ft. down a grassy hill to help her. At that moment a bullet shattered Meeker's left elbow and hit a rib, a second slammed into the main combustion chamber of the chopper's turbine and a third struck near the fuel tank. "They're aimed shots," Meeker remembers thinking. "In five seconds we'll all be dead...
...editor for a newspaper in Dortmund. The set of associations between job and status in Germany and America are different enough that she did not think, as an American woman would have, that it was unusual for her to make a voluntary switch from journalist to mother's helper, her first American...
From California fruit picker, he shifted to boxing as a lightweight (130 lbs.) and won 17 of 19 bouts. Later he got a job as a helper in a tool and die shop in the Oakland area, went to night school to learn English, mathematics and mechanical drawing...