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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is there about these creatures that makes so many people wait in line for hours for a chance to push and shove and generally go bonkers? Two disc jockeys in Milwaukee wisecracked that a load of the dolls would be dropped from a B-29 bomber to people who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Cabbage Patch Craze | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Psychologists offer their usual blizzard of explanations. One theory is that the very homeliness of the dolls is appealing. "It is comforting," wrote Dr. Joyce Brothers, "to feel the Cabbage Patch doll can be loved with all your might-even though it isn't pretty." Still another theory emphasizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Cabbage Patch Craze | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

In Milwaukee, for example, she worked on a series of investigative reports examining "the in-justices and outright collusion of the city's power structure that were 'dumping' the mentally ill into run-down boarding homes." Sometimes social workers would send these people, barefoot in bathrobes, from nursing homes or...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: Her Own Footsteps | 12/10/1983 | See Source »

Reporting the plight of Milwaukee's mentally ill. Bernstein uncovered numerous cases of Medicaid fraud by psychotherapists and social works who were billing the government the services never performed. These accounts let its viveral prosocutions, and the formulicat of a point State City Mudioldd prosecutorial unit. This R. porting carned...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: Her Own Footsteps | 12/10/1983 | See Source »

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in communications, Jackson immediately went to work in the sports department of the Milwaukee Journal. Soon after, in 1978, Jackson brought his typewriter and interest in New York sports rivaries to Newsday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sense, Not Dollars | 12/10/1983 | See Source »

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