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Mean-street supergroup: Grand Master Flash has been called, The most detailed and devastating report from underclass America since Bob Dylan decried the lonesome death of Hattie Carroll
Mean-street supergroup: Grand Master Flash has been called, The most detailed and devastating report from underclass America since Bob Dylan decried the lonesome death of Hattie Carroll

Mean-street supergroup: Grand Master Flash has been called, The most detailed and devastating report from underclass America since Bob Dylan decried the lonesome death of Hattie Carroll

Date1/7/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mean-street supergroup: Grand Master Flash has been called, The most detailed and devastating report from underclass America since Bob Dylan decried the lonesome death of Hattie Carroll.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0101462F
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Futures trading in currencies and commodities has paid off handsomely for fomer Windsor high school teacher Jim Carroll, who parlayed $750 into more than $150,000. His new wealth, he says, means he might just play chess for a year in 1974. Here he is enjoying a game with wife Mary Pat. Worldwide shortages have made commodity futures a fertile area for speculation, Carroll points out.
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