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...whose family owned the Chicago Sun-Times, the debutante whispered hopefully to one of the paper's editors, "Now you have got to give me a job." But it was not until 15 years later, after she had divorced Field and headed north to Alaska in a station wagon, that she at last broke into the ranks of working journalists, as librarian of the Anchorage Daily News at a wage of $2 an hour. She was not impelled by financial needs; she just had her mind set upon having a career. The next year, she married Lawrence Fanning...
Tenderfeet will find natives shockingly nosy. The plumber may ask personal, pointed questions of new arrivals. The auto-body repairman may insist on discovering how one likes local living before he repairs the station wagon that hit the deer. A simple request to have the Sunday paper set aside at the variety store may bring on a village history about how things have always been done and will never, if God remains in ruburban Heaven, ever change...
...adult pine coffins, which cost the city $32.90 each. The price includes a tar-paper lining and a handful of zinc nails with which to seal the top. The cheap wooden boxes were placed in the back of Charlie's vehicle, which is still called the body wagon, although these days the wagon is an 18-ft. Ford truck, blue and gray, license number 20898-E, with 106,892 miles on the odometer. Nearly all the miles were spent going to and from Potter's Field, the burial ground for New York City's poor, and nearly...
Charlie Garcia drove his empty body wagon away. Tomorrow, Friday, he would bring up another load from the medical examiner's office in Manhattan. He does not haul bodies on weekends or on Mondays. Tuesday is the day for the poor dead of Queens and The Bronx. Wednesday is for Brooklyn. And Thursday, Garcia comes back to Bellevue. Staten Island buries...
...paid up to $2,000 for some of his speeches, Jackson has no real financial security. His three-story stucco house in a black middle-class section of Chicago needs painting. He owns only three suits and two pairs of dress shoes. His car is a black Buick station wagon. Despite his showy public style, he leads a rather simple private life: his favorite recreation being a game of basketball on his backyard court. His frenetic pace on the road is occasionally slowed slightly by a mild case of sickle-cell anemia, a hereditary blood disease that affects blacks...