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...When I heard rumors that all Japanese would be interned, I couldn 't believe it. I kept saying that I was a loyal American citizen and that it just couldn't happen in a democracy." -Testimony of Mabel...
Even so, the idea of moving things like the post office and the bank away from the residential district disturbed older residents. Said Mabel Shepard, 79, who is ailing and confined to her home: "It's too far to go for groceries and the mail. I don't think it's a good idea." Mabel opposed the shift even though, back in 1951, she and her crippled daughter were pulled from their two-story house just before it lurched down the street, borne away on the current. Discussion raged. Some said another big flood might not come...
Cornelius J. O'Brien, acting deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, said yesterday Mabel Coney, a UHS clerk, received a telephone call at 2:05 p.m. from a man who announced that a bomb would explode on the first floor...
...give up teaching at age 62: "Working with them I forget all my aches and pains." Adds Teacher Nelson: "She is picky, and I like that. I've heard her ask the kids to do things over that I might have let go. They respect her." Mabel Karelse, 79, has been going blind for three years, and students help her select meals at the cafeteria and read to her. In turn, she has been able to help Senior Pattie Gregory, 17, who began losing her sight at age 13. Says Pattie, who is teaching Braille to Mabel. "Someday...
Volume 5, Ladies Sing the Blues (featuring Big Maybelle, Little Esther, Albinia Jones, Miss Rhapsody and Linda Hopkins) is a must-have primarily because of an entire side by Big Maybelle (eight tracks), one of the most explosive singers of all time. Born Mabel Smith in 1924, she reduced the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival to ashes with her performance. Unfortunately she died after a long bout with heroin in 1972. She is sorely missed...