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From pulpit and bench, from social workers and editorial writers, the U.S. regularly hears dire warnings about the growth of juvenile delinquency and the crisis this implies for urban civilization. Nonsense, says Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; the proportion of juvenile crime to urban population is no greater now than it was at the turn of the century. The interesting psychological question, she told a law-school forum at New York University last week, is: "Why are so many of our children not delinquent?" "Children have an amazing capacity to tolerate bad parents, poor...
Shelia Flaherty '54, Lauretta McKenna '54, and Katherine Gridley '54 are among the leading players in the large, all-femal cast...
...escutcheon of the Truman Administration. Indicted for perjury last week was owlish E. Merl Young, an old Missouri friend of Harry Truman, and a former RFC examiner who became a $60,000-a-year influence peddler in Washington. Indicted with him: Joseph Hirsch Rosenbaum, the lawyer who gave Mrs. Lauretta Young her famed $9,450 "natural royal pastel" mink, and two others accused of swinging their weight around the scandal-ridden RFC. Young and the others lied, said the jury, when they denied using their influence with the RFC to line their own pockets with natural royal pastel money...
...last week White House Stenographer Lauretta Young put on the cloth coat she had been conspicuously wearing of late, and quit her job. Her ownership of an $8,540 royal pastel mink coat, which was conveniently financed by a Washington attorney who specialized in federal contacts, titillated the Senate investigation into RFC influence-peddling last month (TIME, March 12). To hear Presidential Secretary Joe Short tell it, Mrs. Young (after working for Harry Truman since his senatorial days) had simply decided "to devote more time to domestic duties...
...time that an engineering firm reported officially that Lustron was hopeless and should be foreclosed. Next, Dunham heard a report that a "grab" of Lustron had been plotted at a house party at Jacobs' Florida ranch. Among the guests: Mr. & Mrs. Dawson, Merl Young and his wife Lauretta, the mink-coated White House secretary. Said Dunham: "Out of this Lustron matter came my first feeling of doubt . . . Shortly thereafter, it became apparent that my old 'friends' had cooled. They dropped me." "They" included Donald Dawson...