Word: brod
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RE91 Brod ALLEN (6-3.226.SR) RT 95 Mike SEARS (6-3.235.SR) NG 46 Rob ULSES (6-2.225.SR) LT 93 Jim JENNINGS (6-3.240.SR) LE 98 Kurt GUTIERREZ (6-2.205.JR) LB 54 John RONEY (6-1.225.SR) LB 55 Jim GENTILE (6-1.225.SR) CB 18 Eric GRIFFIN (6-0.188.SR) CB 37 Kerrut McKELVY (5-9.184.SR) SS 19 Bob SILVER (5-9.192.SR) FS 26 Mike TEASE (5.11.182.SO...
...relish--he quite possibly had a hand in bringing on the tuberculosis that killed him at age 41. As for the writings that were not published during his lifetime--two unfinished novels, a large number of stories, diaries and letters--he asked his close friend and first biographer, Max Brod, to "burn it all as soon as possible...
...Hayman's attitude towards Kafka, it is, not surprisingly, less reverential that Max Brod's; Brod's biography seemed to be written chiefly as an antidote to the view that anyone who created Gregor Samsa must have been a dark and morbid character, though Brod's work is honest and engaging, we almost lose sight of all the self-torture in the radiance of the saint-like glow. Hayman's biography is more balanced, but also admiring (as anyone must be) of Kafka's incredible lack of cynicism, even as he was dying...
...owner of Jonathons Coin in Los Angeles. From the daily glut, his wife picks out the valuable objects for resale. But at Manhattan's Empire Diamond & Gold Buying Service, where the queues form two hours before the store opens, almost everything goes to the smelter. Says Owner Jack Brod, who bought a Spanish-American War medal for its weight and paid only $75: "We might get more from a collector, but it's not worth looking for one or waiting. We'll melt...
...York's Empire Buying Service, Owner Jack Brod was importuned by one eager customer to extract his loose, gold-filled tooth on the pot. Brod refused; the man left, but returned a few days later with tooth in hand. Typically, New York Dealer Harry Rodman paid one Maryland dentist $500 for the gold scrap and dust that he had collected with a special vacuum from dental grindings in just two years of practice. Dealers also quietly bought gold fillings from morticians, proving that you can't take it with...