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Another area which the eight-man committee plans to investigate, the financial problems of small varsity sports, has been the subject of heated controversy since last year, when a slash of $100,000 from the athletic budget left six teams penniless. Lacrosse team coach Bruce Munro complained yesterday of his team's plight, claiming that he had been forced to ask friends at Dartmouth and Princeton to board his teams free of charge...
Then up stepped Brooklyn's outspoken Judge Samuel Simon Leibowitz, 66, Rumanian-born, up from the slums, and never-as a celebrated criminal lawyer or judge-averse to provoking a headline. New York, he said, needed 1) a state law to slow down the inflow of penniless migrants by requiring a one-year residence -normal in most states-before a newcomer becomes eligible for relief payments, and 2) a civic campaign to discourage migration to the city from "all parts of the country and the Caribbean." Puerto Rican children, he said, flashing a sheaf of papers, account...
...hero scissored by children from the backs of cereal boxes. His incessant wrestling with the devil is a little sophomoric, and his escape from Parmelee Cove shows the limits of even the best genre writing: Auchincloss can think of nothing better for him to do than marry a penniless fashion magazine editor and barricade himself in a Manhattan town house...
...petty court records of Haarlem, Holland, the last on about 300 paintings scattered throughout the world. The court records show a sorry existence, the paintings a radiant one. Hals's life was both. He fathered 14 children, often went cold and hungry with his brood, died penniless (in 1666) at the age of 86. In good times he would march off to the club, being fond of music, beer and jolly company. His canvases show mainly sunny people, as if reflected in the elbow-polished wood of a tavern table...
...aimlessly from city to city, was picked up by a pastor in a Bowery basement where he had gone to sleep; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Restored and reunited with the wife he deserted in England 14 years before, Bolton turned to helping others, called his congregation of penniless wanderers the "most desperate, most defeated, most faithful in the world," established a "halfway" center to prepare them for a return to normal society...