Playing for keeps

Article Abstract:

Five days a week a group of widowers and retirees gather around three worn pool tables in a South Shore recreation room to trade gossip and insults to one another. Though they are old and their bodies are breaking down they feel that the few hours they spend together heal their body and soul better than any medicines, which is certainly it is better than sitting along at home.

Public affairs, Private Households, Consumer Expend-Health & Recreation, Consumer Expend-Reading & Recreation, Social aspects, Recreation, Retirees, Amusements, Widowers

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House of cards

Article Abstract:

The Murray family, with Edward and Lucille as parents and nine children, adds up to a family of entertainers and one comedy superstar. Conversations with seven of the nine siblings, and with people who knew them growing up, reveal a quirky, funny, almost quintessentially American family who still gather for special occasions and still call each other often.

Evaluation, Family, Domestic relations, Family relations, Murray, Bill (American actor), Family history

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Betting her life

Article Abstract:

Barbara Hermansen found happiness and fulfillment as a North Shore wife, mother, and lawyer until she started taking a prescription drug for neurological malady called restless leg syndrome, which affects up to 12 million Americans. The drug completely changed her life and made her a liar, a gambler and she even attempted suicide.

Misc. Amusement, Recreation Services, Legal Gambling, Gambling Industries, Influence, Diseases, Gambling, Nervous system diseases, Hermansen, Barbara

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