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...curling up in their cotton rags against a wall to sleep-and often to die. Out of this scene of unremitting human desolation has come an extraordinary message of love and hope. Its bearer is a tiny gray-eyed Roman Catholic nun who 27 years ago, alone and virtually penniless, set out to work among the city's "poorest of the poor...
...difficult career. Downs, who wrote our first story on Springsteen (TIME, April 1, 1974), interviewed legendary Music Man John Hammond. Vallely dug for Springsteen's musical inspirations in the dingy ambiance of his adopted home town, Asbury Park, N.J. She visited the boardwalk haunts where Springsteen "hung out" penniless only a few years ago She also encountered old Springsteen sidekicks, whose names have been woven into his lyrics. One 4½hour interview with Southside Johnny began cautiously but ended with a walk down Memory Lane to take a look at Madame Marie's, a fortunetelling parlor that...
...harvesting civilization's mystic wisdom. Ford, in his ready-made suit and L.L. Bean shoes, notes dryly that his occult education came from a 250 booklet ordered from the Franklin Novelty Co. of Philadelphia. It is the same organization that will buy moving-picture flip-books from a penniless Jewish immigrant. The peddler will end in Hollywood as Baron Ashkenazy, producer of those Rosetta stones of American nostalgia, the Our Gang comedies...
...American Psychiatric Association has reported that "at least 90% of those in state and county mental hospitals are not dangerous to themselves or others." Bruce J. Ennis, a civil liberties lawyer who argued the Donaldson case, adds, "Most of them are just old. They are homeless, penniless, friendless and maybe not too smart." Many will not want to leave and will remain as voluntary patients. In other cases, authorities may now decree that patients are dangerous or simply unable to "live safely in freedom." Still, there will be new pressure to release large numbers, if only because better treatment will...
...grandson at play saw him stabbed to death by a teenage boy who was apparently after the 40¢ that the child had in his pocket. In New York City this spring, police charged a gang of six teen-agers?one of whom was 13?with murdering three elderly and penniless men by asphyxiation. One man died with his prayer shawl stuffed into his mouth...