Word: brimmer
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BOSTON, March 11--Retired Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, USN, 68, the first man to fly over the North and South Poles, died peacefully in his sleep tonight at his Brimmer St. home...
Letters in the Cellar. A grandson of Scholar Samuel Eliot, Morison had his tory virtually thrust upon him. The family house on Brimmer Street, where he still lives, was a rendezvous for Boston's great, and the family archives were a source library in themselves. At Harvard Morison fell under the spell of Charles Haskins, Edward Channing and Albert Bushnell Hart. He wrote his first book, Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, partly from the boxes of letters stored in the family wine cellar. But aside from the influence of his teachers and ancestors, there was also...