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...mile stretch in Kansas on Route 4, from Geneseo to Shields, about 40 miles south of Interstate 70 is a veritable death valley. In town after town, schools have been boarded up, and the only preserved building is the American Legion post. These parts have so emptied that a turtle crossing the street has a decent shot at getting to the other side uninterrupted. Entire city blocks sell for $100 at sheriff's auctions, only to be abandoned, tax delinquent and on the block again a few years later...
...Prosperity, W.Va. The 12th of 14 children, Rubin was born 73 years ago in a coal camp in nearby Lillybrook. He worked at a Laundromat and a newspaper to put himself through local colleges and eventually became a social worker. A veteran, Rubin also became commander of his American Legion post and a vets' advocate in Charleston, the state capital...
...time of that brief pilgrimage in 1964, Bob Dylan, younger than Sandburg by more than a half-century, had already made three record albums, answered about 40,000 questions from a growing legion of fans and skeptical press, and was reinventing American music. "You certainly look like an intense young man," Sandburg observed, a nice bit of folksy lowballing considering that Dylan, back then, burned like Blake's tiger. Bob gave Carl a copy of The Times They Are a-Changin 'and headed off down the road...
...good news is that even as the population of cutters grows, so does the legion of professionals working on new ways to unravel and treat the problem. The first step is to understand why kids do this to themselves...
...among the growing legion of Issey Miyake's admirers [LIVING, Oct. 21]. I have finally put away my Ivy League classics and am thrilled to be liberated by his exquisitely crafted clothes. I used to despise shopping, but no more. Now with every new season I am on the trail of Miyake's designs. Dodi Fromson Los Angeles Cosell's Confessions...