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...face a painful decision. Penniless and afraid to tell her parents, she gave birth as a charity patient at a local hospital to a blue-eyed baby girl she named Kelly Dale. The father, a student who had accompanied her to Toronto, was out of the picture, so Joni hastily married folk singer Chuck Mitchell, hoping to make a home for her baby. "I kept trying to find some kind of circumstance where I could stay with her," she would later tell the Los Angeles Times. But when that relationship foundered, Mitchell reluctantly put the baby up for adoption...
...brief "nonidentifying" description of her mother. She was a folk singer born in the prairie town of Saskatoon, of Norwegian-Scottish descent, who suffered polio as a child. Encouraged by friends who had heard of Mitchell's search and who thought that she resembled the singer, Gibb found a Joni Mitchell Website and began clicking off the biographical details she found there: blue eyes, blond hair, long limbs, Saskatchewan. "There were like 14 or 15 matches," she told newspapers last week...
...have loved and lost has its merits, especially for poetic types like JONI MITCHELL, but to have lost and found is still sweeter. Mitchell has been reunited with a daughter she put up for adoption in Toronto in 1965, when Mitchell was just 21 and not yet a folk-singing star. She went public about her desire to meet her daughter, now 32, last December, but because of Ontario's strict adoption-secrecy laws, she had a hard time finding the young woman. "Apparently her daughter was looking for her too, so there's sort of a fairy-tale ending...
Such a vision, expressed so unabashedly by a bona fide member of the academic elite, stands to make a splash in the upmarket reaches of academia, theology and perhaps even among mainline Protestant preachers. In the meantime, however, a fellow revivalist is stirring up more populist waters. Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic since a diving accident at age 17, is well-known in conservative Protestantism. She appeared on a Billy Graham Crusade, wrote a best-selling autobiography whose royalties she used to found a religious organization to aid the handicapped, and has a radio program airing on 700 stations. Like...
...with seven minutes in the third, Yale's Joni Kletter bulled a shot past junior Harvard goalie Jen Bowdoin. Both teams had chances to score later in the game, but neither could do so. Princeton 8 Harvard...