Streetcorner Research Harvard study paid delinquents to talk
Thirty juvenile delinquents in Harvard Streetcorner Research were paid 50 cents to $2 an hour to discuss their lives into a tape recorder. The project showed a follow up delinquency rate about half of expectations after three years, with most subjects slow to change but some moving to work, military, or school.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Ralph Schwitzgebel
Streetcorner Research
Charles W. Slack
University of Alabama
Harvard Laboratory of Social Relations
Schwitzgebel
Boston
Hell’s Lost Angels
Bounty Actor Weds Polynesian Dancer Suzanne
Hantsport Nova Scotia AP reports Wayne Dewar seaman and stand-in for Marlon Brando in Mutiny on the Bounty married Tahiti dancer Teretiaiti Tevahineheipoua Mai fano known as Suzanne last fall. The couple settled in Dewar’s hometown and Suzanne quickly won local affection as a new bride with waist length hair and Canadian fashion.
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Wayne Dewar
Nova Scotia
Tahiti
Marlon Brando
Wayne
Suzanne
Walter Dewer
Northeast Airlines Seeks Lower One Way Fares
Northeast Airlines asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to approve reducing one way nonreservable fares from Boston to New York from 13 to 10 dollars and New York to Washington from 15 to 12 dollars, effective December 21. The tax is included. President James W. Austin said ads would crown the move Standby fly for a nickel a mile to attract new air travelers and drivers toward air travel.
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Boston
Northeast Airlines
Civil Aeronautics Board
New York
Washington
James W. Austin
Northeast
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