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...marathon's prize committee Schlesinger said, has collected donations which it will give out as prizes to dancers who collect the most in pledged money. The prizes range form a first place trip for two to Bermuda to free pizza form the Currier House grill but none will be awarded before March 3, when all the pledges are collected said coerce Elizabeth Goodman...

Author: By George A. Whiteside, | Title: Dancers Net $7500 for N. Cambridge | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

While state law entitles prisoners to legal counsel in institutional proceedings, the state is not required to provide attorneys as in criminal trials. Unable to pay for professional lawyers on their own prisoners at MCI-Concord. Norfolk, Framingham, and Walpole prisons call the program collect to request its assistance...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Legal Advice--For Free | 2/18/1984 | See Source »

...services are particularly valuable to inmates, says program participant Arthur A. Baer, because the students are able to collect outside information and testimony that their incarcerated clients would otherwise be without...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Legal Advice--For Free | 2/18/1984 | See Source »

...time to give one pause. Actually, the city in recent years has been so undogmatic about enforcing the ban that it now has an estimated 3,000 dogs. The atmosphere is scarcely one to make a pup tense. Putting up whippet all, police almost never enforce the law (or collect the $200 fine) for harboring a bootleg mutt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceland: Dogged Stand | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Before he died in 1912, Widener had collected 3,000 volumes of what he considered to be the 100 most important works in English literature. Whether saved because of their fine bindings or illustrious owners, the Widener collection heralds the first folio of Shakespeare's plays, and various works by Dickens, Donne, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Authors presented many of these volumes to royalty and friends. As a member of the Hasty Pudding Club, Widener was also inclined to collect books depicting fanciful costumes from France and Spain, says Henri K. Stegemeier, an associate curator of the Widener...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Treasure in the Stacks | 2/2/1984 | See Source »

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