Heroes for today
Article Abstract:
There are many ordinary Americans who can be considered heroes in their own way. The stories of a black washerwoman who established $150,000 scholarship fund, a ten-year old boy who saved his classmates from injury, a janitor who found and returned $612 and aging veterans who serve as honor guards for departed comrades are presented.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1996
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Charlie & the river rat
Article Abstract:
An excerpt from "Ava's Man" is presented. The relationship which developed between an elderly man named Charlie Bundrum and a reclusive man named Jessie Clines is discussed. The characters of the men are described.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 2001
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A place of her own
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A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist buys a house for his mother as a childhood promise kept. The house is the journalist's 'reward' to his mother, who toiled endlessly to give her son's the life they deserved.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1998
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