Al Robbins, a 28-year-old stationery salesman and free-lance photographer, sometimes picks up extra money by selling spot news pictures to the New York Journal-American. One day last week, he was standing outside a Manhattan parochial school on his sales route, talking to a priest, when a youngster ran up and gasped: "Father, a little boy's been hit by a truck." Grabbing his camera from his car, Robbins ran after the priest.
They found seven-year-old Michael Nordquist lying in the street, where a coal truck had hit him as he stepped off the curb. Still clutched in Michael's hand was the change that...