They also made sit-upons, newspaper-stuffed plastic-covered pillows -- which Girl Scout troops have long made -- that are used for sitting on the ground.
The Mussel Slough affair was seized upon by newspaper editors as well as a number of popular writers soon after the tragic shootout, as an example of corporate greed and the abuses of freewheeling market capitalism around the start of the 20th century.
During his microfiche searches, Mr. Rosenstein stumbled upon the newspaper strips.
History workshops that draw upon the newspaper archive are also available, as well as science and environment lessons.
SOME 15 years ago, the actress Christine Lahti came upon a newspaper article about a Jewish doctor who had secretly performed more than 1,000 abortions with her bare hands in Auschwitz.
A few days later, however, upon reading newspaper accounts of the protest art at the Guggenheim and the Met, Mr. Lederman called a reporter and told her Mr. Robins's story.
The name: Janet Cooke, a Post reporter who brought the worst disgrace upon the newspaper in its history – and Bradlee's 26 years as editor – over her 1981 Pulitzer prizewinning article about a black male heroin addict, aged eight.
"Secondly, I have no confidence, based upon the newspaper's past performance, that it will not proceed to treat Mr Wran's referees in the same unpleasant and misleading fashion in which it has already treated her," he said.
(Pulling out a couple of unsatisfactory bottles of spirits left behind by the previous owners, Bette snaps, "Crème de menthe and chartreuse! Are they leprechauns?") Later Bette comes upon a newspaper clipping that indicates Minnie is most definitely aware of who her new acquaintance is, and Bette's suspicions about her motives — she more or less volunteers to become Bette's assistant — are aroused.
I'd decided upon a setting - a brutalist housing estate - and one image (children playing games on a dome-shaped mound that they referred to as "the moon", a memory from my own childhood), but it wasn't until I chanced upon a newspaper article about the proposed demolition of the Robin Hood Gardens estate in east London that these ideas started to become - if you'll excuse the pun - concrete.
