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REPORTER AT LARGE about Brian Lee Tomberlind, the child of a lower middle-class family. The writer followed Brian to school and home with his family for a …
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about a multi-generational black family and the welfare system that supported them. Tells about the lives of Crystal Taylor (pseud.), …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the consequences of not having a will and the search for an heir. On Mar. 22, 1984 Edward Devlin died without a will. On Nov. 12, …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Robert E. Allred of the Army Air Forces who was the pilot of a B-24 plane that crashed on Mar. 22, 1944, on a cross-country flight …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the history of a World War II missing plane. On Mar. 22, 1944 Lt. Robert Allred of the Army Air Forces piloted a B-24 on a flight …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the ailing 80-year-old Kate Quinton (pseud.) Although she lived with her daughter Claire, she needed a caretaker to assist her at …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the ailing 80-year-old Kate Quinton (pseud.) & her treatment for the first half of 1982. She was a patient at Lutheran Medical …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Sylvia Frumkin (pseud.), a 33-year old patient at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens. Writer chronicles her medical history …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the case history of Sylvia Frumkin (pseudonym), a patient at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. Writer describes her family: her …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Creedmoor Psychiatric Center and the stay there, beginning June 16, 1978, of Sylvia Frumkin, 30. Between June 30 and July 6 she …
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Writing in 1981, Susan Sheehan reports on the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, a state-run mental institution serving the people of Queens.
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PROFILE of Carmen Santana (fictitious name), a welfare mother. She lives in a 4-room apt. in the Williamsburg section of Bklyn., with the 4 children she …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Le Quang, a thirteen-year old orphaned Vietnamese ice-cream vender. He was born about forty miles from Danang, in the village of …