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Since his debut as a dramatist at the age of eight in North Plainfield, N.J., in a one-act drama starring himself, Henry has had two "abiding passions": the theater and writing. He reviewed plays for his high school paper and then for the Yale Daily News. He also took a few turns on the boards himself, acting in productions at the professional Yale Repertory Theater and in summer stock. But acting gave way to writing, on both national politics and cultural affairs, for the Boston Globe (where he won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for criticism), the New York Daily...
Many nurses and doctors have shown courage and compassion in caring for AIDS patients. But in big-city hospitals, patients are sometimes left unwashed, lying in their excrement, their food trays stacked outside the door. In Plainfield, N.J., Doris Williams, the foster mother of a four-year-old girl, recalls that nurses at first held and cooed over the child. "But as soon as we got the AIDS diagnosis, they were dressed up like 'Ghostbusters' in gloves and masks...
Saleem K. Boghdan North Plainfield...
William A. Henry III was sitting on the sidelines covering a schoolboy football game for his North Plainfield, N.J., high school newspaper when his journalism career began. A reporter from the Plainfield Courier-News showed up late and asked Henry what had happened. Impressed with Henry's colorful recounting of the game, the old pro soon thereafter helped the 16-year-old land a part-time job at the paper. Henry's career continued at Yale, where he was executive editor of both the Yale Daily News and the Yale Banner yearbook and co-author of three published...
Paul O. Powers North Plainfield...