Word: breen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Officer John A. Breen of the University police noticed one of the three climbing a fire escape to the building's roof and notified City police. Breen reported seeing the man descend and join two others in a parked...
When Cambridge police arrested the trio, they found a vending machine, coin box, several screw drivers and a glove in the car, Breen reported...
...picked for the job was Thomas E. Breen, a vice president of the Webb Corp. and, coincidentally, the son of famed Joseph Breen, longtime head of Hollywood's Hays Office. A former actor himself and onetime marine, Breen began by reading up on geriatrics and visiting places like St. Petersburg, which depressed him with its drab rooming houses and its thousands of elderly people "just sitting around on benches." He decided that activities should be important in any program that Webb might undertake. He was also frequently assured by gerontologists that old folks hated to be cut off from...
...home office in Phoenix, Ariz. Since 1954 it had been growing slowly on the unusual principle that no one less than 60 was allowed to move in. Despite this geriatric heresy, and despite the lack of facilities for shopping or recreation, the houses at Youngtown were steadily selling. Breen decided that there might be something in the age-segregation idea, no matter what the experts said...
...time employment? Basic to the proposal was the notion that all its facilities-golf course, swimming pool, shopping center, etc.-should be installed before the first house was sold ("There's no point in trying to sell futures to a guy who's 65 years old," argued Breen). Webb decided the risk was worth it, and the first of Webb's Sun Cities-30,000 acres northeast of Phoenix-began to sell houses five months later...