Behavior

" My First Love"

Published: May 29, 1977

Remember that first, nervous rapture? Some people you've heard of do, and tell us their memories

Elinor Coleman Guggenheimer could see her father coming down the street and he had The Doll. The one she had asked him for months before, the rather expensive one. She dreamt of having the doll. And she stood, prissy Elly, 12, in the late afternoon, in the summer of '24, in Deal, N.J., waiting, and suddenly she had this feeling.

Oh.

Daddy, don't give me The Doll right now. Not here. He might be watching from across the street, or one of his younger brothers might be and they're awful teases. I don't want to hurt you. But -- Hank might see.

And then and there she knew she was in love. "It was like that line from the poem, Longfellow's 'Maidenhood' -- 'Standing with reluctant feet where the brook and river meet,' -- a moment at 

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Behavior, legal history

"The Suing Syndrome" 

Published: May 8, l977

How could you not love Frances Swinick? Who looks so motherly in her lace-lined baby-blue pants suit? Who with head bowed and hands folded chuckles Munchkin style? Whose milky cheeks rise like dough concealing large brown eyes when she talks, in a mirthful, childlike voice, of the things she treasures most -- her high school equivalency diploma, her $ll5-a-week clerk-typist job and a secure clean place to live. For whom "terrific fun" means dancing at Roseland. How could you not love this small 59-year-old chubby?

Easily-- if you were one of the judges, New York City officials and others who have felt the lash of her self-taught skill. Don't mess: Frances Swinick has been suing for 26 years.

She sued her late estranged husband for support. She sued her union, employers, landlords, judges and Horn & Hardart. She sued the City of New York more than a dozen times...

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"Lords of the Limousine"

Published: March 28, l976

The inside world of New York chauffeurs

Movie Stars or students in the back seat

Don McKee looked at himself in the mirror. It showed a thin, tall man in his late 40's with neatly combed straw-blond hair and a gaunt, narrow face, dressed in a chauffeur's black uniform. He turned out the lights in his shabby but very clean W. 81st St.apartment and walked south into the driver's seat of one of his three late-model Cadillac limousines. It too was very clean. He drove toCentral Park West and picked up a man who was to meet his sister-in-law, Mia Farrow, at Kennedy Airport. She was coming in from London for a few days, had an appointment with her agent in Manhattan...

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