Description: Funeral of Lowell bookie Jackie McDermott (outside church). Speculation he was murdered because he could inform police about both organized crime and political corruption. Scott Harshbarger.
Description: Publicity failure in James Clavell's would-be best seller "Whirlwind"; fell short of market expectations. Bookstore interior and printing press. Publishing.
Description: Former state Sen. James Kelly gets off elevator in lobby of US district courthouse (McCormack building). Courtroom art of judges Rya Zobel and Joseph Tauro.
Description: As James O'Leary leaves job as MBTA general manager, a look at his successful 8-year tenure yielding many public transit improvements. Eugene Brune, Somerville mayor. Barry Locke file. Alewife T.
Description: Laid off workers from Hyde Park Mill of James River Corporation despair over inability to get new jobs at comparable wages in event of continued plant shutdown. Paul Eustace, state labor secretary.