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November 28, 1983

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a reporter at large

KATE QUINTON'S DAYS

Susan Sheehan

REPORTER AT LARGE about the ailing 80-year-old Kate Quinton (pseud.) Although she lived with her daughter Claire, she needed a caretaker to assist her at …