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Tony Rayner moved up from 177 to replace Scanlon, and it took a great effort to avert a pin. Using several excellent moves, the Engineers' Walt Price had Rayner in two predicaments en route...
...himself, the late Walt Disney became an American art form, like circuses, animal acts and Radio City Music Hall. Sooner or later they all had to come together, and last week was the time: Disney on Parade opened on Christmas Day in Chicago. After Chicago, the road show moves on to 26 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada...
Snoopy Sweatshirt. Violence is a fact of life to the children of West 116th Street, but in the weeks just before his death, Walt had more than his share. Earlier this month, someone dropped a brick on his head, and the wound had to be stitched. A few days later he was hit by a car, suffering scratches and bruises. A week after that, he fell from a fire escape...
...coroner who examined Walt found scar tissue under the skin of the boy's arm, indicating that he had shot heroin before. There was no evidence of the needle tracks common to hardcore addicts. Still, Walter weighed only 80 lbs.; so a double injection of heroin -the suspected dosage-would have been enough to depress his breathing and kill him. Was he deliberately given too powerful a dose? Maybe he had threatened a pusher, many of whom are his own age. Or did he perhaps know exactly what he was doing...
...thing is certain-Walt had no trouble getting the stuff. Take a ride down 116th Street sometime; see the pushers openly peddling heroin to young blacks for $2 a bag. If you go on a mild gray day, you will see doped youngsters nodding listlessly in doorways. This was Walt's Main Street; it was all he ever knew...