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Winterset--Maxwell Anderson's urban plea for justice and young love. Closing on Saturday night at the Loeb, 64 Brattle...
...brigade of disabled workers and people handicapped from birth parked their wheelchairs outside the hearing room in the Sacramento capitol in a quiet plea that their welfare aid not be reduced. Leaders of powerful police and fire fighters' lobbies jammed the committee chamber. So did the state's influential teacher and school lobbyists. Committee Member Leo McCarthy, speaker of the state assembly, passed up so many meals as the deadline neared that he had a severe allergic reaction to energy-sustaining almonds and had to be temporarily hospitalized. Select Committee Chairman Al Rodda, a mild-mannered former college...
...took the plea, but that is what they wanted...
...take the plea by yourself, or did the demons force...
...thought-action." And, "I began to doubt that photography was an art. It was a way of life, the best vocation for a single gal to get out and meet people, find a husband, make a few bucks. 'I want to be a photographer' was a plea for love...