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Instances of particular interest: Tuesday, November 22: Milton Edlow, Jr., a 21-year old resident of Boston, was arrested by Cambridge Police and charged with cruelty to animals Police said Edlow is accused of kicking a kitten 12 inches into the air watching it fall, then laughing with friends about the event...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Police Blotter | 12/3/1983 | See Source »

...society which fails to equip its young women with the facts and self-assertiveness necessary for them to make sensible decisions in a world that is free, but also harsh, hazardous, and confusing. Had Stratten recognized herself from the start as an individual with rights--despite her sex-kitten looks--she would have viewed herself as a corporation, instead of as an object of Snider's genuine affection. Indeed, a growing number of models and actresses (such as covergirl Carol Alt, who was even younger than Stratten when she began making astute financial and professional decisions) are taking charge...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Exploiting the Exploiters | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

...known to millions of TV viewers as Kitten, the youngest member of the Anderson family on Father Knows Best. But when the program ended its run in 1960 after six years, Lauren Chapin, now 38, lost a lot more than a dad who could cope wisely with any domestic crisis. Out of work and spurned by her alcoholic mother, Chapin spent the next 15 years in a twilight zone of casual sex, drugs and jail for forgery. Then, one epochal day, she walked into the Eagle's Nest church in Irvine, Calif. She recalls, "When the pastor said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 19, 1983 | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...endearing Scatman Crothers, presenting the gift of renewed youth to a home full of old folks. Once again Spielberg is cranking up the magic machine that has served him so well. This time the spell does not hold; one can hear only the machinery, purring like a contented windup kitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Dreams | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

...Editing. This includes colorful writing that buries the news in the sixth paragraph. As a colleague of Jones' puts it, if a nuclear accident hit an American city, some writer would begin his story: "Yesterday, Mrs. Minnie Johnson, 72, could not find her little black and gray kitten, Mittens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Why Readers Mistrust Newspapers | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

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