We bet the first Monday in Oct. is always circled on Linda Greenhouse's calendar; she started on this Times beat in 1978
... 1938 - 
Stella Dallas was presented for the first time on the NBC Red radio network ...... 
1978 - Larry Holmes beat up Ken Norton to claim the heavyweight ..... Janis '
Pearl' Joplin died of a heroin overdose in Hollywood in October 1970.