Word: brickes
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Died. Reginald Owen, 85, veteran character actor who played stuffy English aristocrats in scores of films and stage plays; after a series of strokes; in Boise, Idaho. The son of an English brick maker, Owen came to the U.S. in the mid-1920s, and by 1929 had starred in his first Hollywood movie. In addition to his usual roles as upper-crusty Englishmen, he appeared as Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933), a film for which he did his own screenplay, as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1938); and as the scheming politician in Affairs of State...
...when this was still a marshland lit by the glow of municipal trash fires, and then Jews who moved in to escape the increasing number of blacks in adjoining Brownsville. They are mostly working and lower-middle class (college graduates: 6.6% ; average income: $12,303), proud of their neat brick houses. Canarsie, then, is typical of the defacto segregation in Northern cities (New York is 21% black, but some schools are 95% black or 95% white, depending on the area), and so it was in Canarsie that school officials decided to attack the problem...
...only on property already owned. But unfortunately it ignores the aesthetic integrity of the Quad, which would be violated by such a cement monstrosity. No one bid the old field house at Radcliffe a tearful farewell when it came down for Currier House, but Currier was designed tastefully of brick and it was outside the Quad anyway. True, Bertram Hall is old and decrepit, and renovation is overdue. Modernization similar to the treatment given to some dorms in the Yard would be a boon. But to raze Bertram for a prefabricated high-rise would be a sacrilege scarcely more defensible...
They tossed several firecrackers admonitions from demonstration leaders to keep the action peaceful. One police photographer was hit by a brick and taken to a hospital...
...from the opening victory, the Crimson faced Fordham but found they were up against a brick wall. "We couldn't move against those guys," Graff said. "They are a very physical team and play a very close defense. They seemed a little out of shape, but that didn't seem to matter. They played hard...