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Lorena Hickok observer occasionally becomes Lorena Hickok prophet. In a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt from North Dakota, she describes the squalor and degradation of a family of farm laborors: no shoes or stockings, feet purple with cold. Only one bed, with dirty pillows, a ragged mattress, and a blanket in...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Tales of Distress | 4/28/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Goodman Ace, 83, droll doyen of comedy writers who created scripts for Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Bob Newhart, Perry Como and Danny Kaye from the 1940s to the 1960s; in New York City. He wrote, directed and acted in Easy Aces, a popular radio comedy from 1928 to 1945...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 5, 1982 | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

Perhaps. But they too longed to give Reagan a chance to put his program into action, in the vague hope that America would be better off than it was a year ago. But, as any poll will suggest, his palliatives are failing. The nation over which Reagan presides-not leads...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: No More Kid Gloves | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

Billy is 42, a full decade younger than his unshaven face and filthy, ragged clothing make him look. He has no home.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Off the Street and Out of the Cold | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

They also weren't run ragged because Cleary, as he did in the 7-2 victory over Maine Saturday night, rotated six defensemen instead of the customary two pairings and an alternate.

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Nip UNH; Lau Stars in Net | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

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