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Answer to delinquency

Caption: "Answer to delinquency--Youngsters at Colony House, 297 Dean St., offer three interested observers first-hand information as to how they spend their spare time. The three gentlemen, left to right, are Arthur Levitt, Brooklyn member of Board of Education; J. Bertram Wegman, president of Youth United, and Presiding Justice John Warren Hill of Domestic Relations Court who visited the settlement as part of a effort to coordinate citywide delinquency prevention. The youngsters are, left to right, Patricia Boyle, 14, of 55 5th Ave., standing; Louis Sams, 9, of 322 Bergen St. [holding ball], Tony Fiorello, 15, of 449 State St. [holding basesball bat and glove] and Joyce McIntyre, 8, of 467 Pacific St." Image includes pictorial display with caption, "Youth United for better citizens of tomorrow."

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