Word: jaywalkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temptresses of movie marquees, past the T-Shirt Express, past the half-hour photo store, past the mendicant * saxophone player on the corner. Decked out, some in black leather jackets, others in pink high-tops and bobby-sox, a jaunty tweed cap here, a brightly colored scarf there, they jaywalk across 48th Street in twos and threes, dodging yellow taxis. Quick! Into an alley, up a metal staircase and through an entrance marked STAGE DOOR...
...told about Coolidge last week were tinged with true affection, something the larger view of history often denies the 30th President. Richard Garvey, now editor of the Springfield Daily News and once a small boy in Coolidge's Northampton neighborhood, recalled being instructed by his parents never to jaywalk and then seeing President Coolidge do that very thing. To young Garvey, it was as if one man had the power to defy the gods. He has studied Coolidge ever since. Last week Garvey published the story of how Coolidge, while living in the New Willard Hotel waiting...