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...Harold Schwartz, the signs left little doubt. The seven-year-old boy visiting his Huntington Park, Calif., office in 1959 had Marfan's syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissue that can cause heart and eye problems, affect skeletal growth and occasionally be fatal. A few months later, the boy's grandmother dropped in to inquire about his condition and revealed that her husband had died of Marfan's. The grandmother's married name was Lincoln...
...Says Schwartz: "I call that my 'burning bush' moment. I had read Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln, which contains a great deal about Lincoln's physical characteristics." Suddenly everything connected. The Great Emancipator, Schwartz realized, was probably afflicted by Marfan's syndrome...
High-income freelancers are as scarce as generous magazines. The median annual earnings of the 500 established writers of the American Society of Journalists and Authors was a modest $10,000 when they were last polled two years ago. Loretta Schwartz's articles for Philadelphia have won her a wailful of journalism awards-and an annual income of less than $7,500. Says Catherine Breslin, a now successful New York City writer who made $800 in 1975: "A freelancer lives at the end of a sawed-off limb...
...Kuhn is a very eminent scholar and I think he'll add great luster to the department," Benjamin I. Schwartz, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, said yesterday...
...journal will aim for an audience of professional architects, students, and interested laymen, Schwartz said. The magazine will be distributed either through mail subscriptions or bookstore sales...