An Ill-Fated Book Attempt Writer’s block venue in Patterson, New York Though I was discharged from the Army in May 1971, I didn’t plan to start work for Roan & Grossman (at the time Roan, Grossman, Singer, Mauck & Kaplan) until that fall. Though far from the Vietnam warzone, my Army work in its own way [...]

Travel My savior of the day turned out to be a friend I’d met in the Army in Washington, Larry DuBois. He had been a reporter in Time Magazine Washington bureau, but at that point had left to work as a freelance writer. He said he had been commissioned to do a Playboy Interview with movie director Roman Polanski [...]

From Elm Street to Lincoln Park Bill, Mary and Julia Bowe with Chesley and Peter de la Chapelle, 451 W. Belden Ave., Chicago 1973 When my post-Army travels finished, I briefly bunked in my old bedroom overlooking Elm Street in Chicago. I had grown up in apartment 4B in the 18- story apartment building at 1120 [...]

A Personal Detour 451 W. Belden Ave., Chicago 1974 As I began to get my feet wet in private practice in the early 1970s, for the first time I felt I had stable employment for the long term and earnings sufficient to marry and have a family. While that remained a distant goal, it was still [...]