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...spend five years on one link and get nowhere," he says, "but when you get that one name, you may be able to take it back several generations in a single day." Margot Williams, 50, a minister of education for St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md., is of African-American, Cherokee, Seminole and Saponi descent. During her first visits to the National Archives, she pored over an 1880 census to find some of her black ancestors. She was getting discouraged after 2 1/2 hours, until, she recalls, "lo and behold, I began to find family members. Once...
...time, immature youngsters cannot reason, and when told no, they respond, "No one is going to tell me I can't!" or "I'll show them!" So we have little boys and juvenile adults playing with real weapons and with the very existence of life. MARY S. BAHR Pikesville, Md...
Among writers, you forgot Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer and the two great Marguerites, Duras and Yourcenar. FRANCOISE HRADSKY Bethesda, Md...
...drowned, but 149 men, women and children were saved, and their accounts of the horror began spreading to the continent's newspapers as soon as rescue ships reached port. Captain Herndon, who went down with his ship, was acclaimed for his heroism, and a memorial was built at Annapolis, Md. As the New York Times wrote afterward, "No story so clear and so appalling has ever before been brought to the firesides of the land...
...invited to read copy for a lark--and was hired to read news on the air. Two years later, while a sophomore at Tennessee State University, she was hired as Nashville's first female and first black TV-news anchor. After graduation, she took an anchor position in Baltimore, Md., but lacked the detachment to be a reporter. She cried when a story was sad, laughed when she misread a word. Instead, she was given an early-morning talk show. She had found her medium. In 1984 she moved on to be the host of A.M. Chicago, which became...