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...years ago, Reggi Marder, Terri Bersohn and some other mothers in Evanston, Ill., decided to organize a TV Tuneout Week for their school. "We weren't saying TV was bad," says Marder, a working mother of three, "but we realized that it's very easy to use television as a baby sitter, and we wanted people to think about these things." The first tuneout week unfortunately coincided with both a nasty cold snap and sweeps week but, lo and behold, the local community center offered free ice skating, the ymca set up an evening swim, a nearby museum offered free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV OR NOT TV | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...died at once, torn and streaming with slug wounds. They were identified as John ("Bowlegs") Oliveri and Joseph Salamone, familiar to the police as members of the local alcohol "racket." Oliveri had lately joined the Capone "mob," deserting a rival faction. . . . That night, on the South Side, one James Reggi was murdered in an alley by revolver bullets. He had Oliveri's telephone number in his pocket. . . . Chicago's police admit that when "King" Capone leaves his underworld, jealous barons are likely to plot and shoot ambitiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicago's | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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