Totie Fields Undergoes Leg Amputation Surgery
New York AP reports comedienne Totie Fields remains hospitalized about ten days after surgeons amputated her left leg above the knee at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Doctors had earlier failed to repair damage from vascular issues caused by a long battle with diabetes. Fields, 46, was listed in satisfactory condition Thursday night.
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Barbara Walters to coanchor ABC Evening News
Barbara Walters leaves NBC after a proffered ABC contract reportedly worth 1 million dollars a year for five years. NBC says Walters’ agent pursued a multimillion-dollar specials deal through her production company. Walters, 43, began with NBC in 1961 and previously earned over 400 thousand dollars annually.
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NOW founder Atkinson relies on welfare in New York
TiGrace Atkinson, a founder of the National Organization for Women, says she has been on welfare every two weeks for a year and began contemplating bank robbery as a form of dignity. She describes cold resistance from welfare staff and notes she obtained aid only after intense protests that included crying and marching to a supervisor.
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