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Broadmoore, the son of a Cincinnati wine broker, had a conventional boyhood until, at 13, he began reading 19th century catalogues. "I was attracted by the suspenders and collars," he explains, "I wanted a gold watch and chain and wire-rimmed spectacles instead of plastic ones." As he acquired the accouterments of the past, "the magnetic grip of this way of life began to settle on me." At Bard College, where he spent three years, he decorated and refurnished his room. "It was the epitome of Victorian gloom," he recalls...
...POWER BROKER by ROBERT A. CARO 1,246 pages. Knopf...
...Nasty and Venomous." Moses, in an official statement, has already described The Power Broker as "nasty, venomous and vindictive" and suggested that readers "look at the record." What the author has done, however, is look behind the record. And what he offers, beyond a superb portrait of a man, is a study of municipal power that will change the way any reader of the book hereafter peruses his newspaper...
...complying with the regulations of the California Cemetery Board. What is unfair, it seems, is that Telophase does not hold title to either a cemetery or a crematorium, has not posted a $25,000 endowment bond insuring proper plot care, and refuses to hire a licensed staff cemetery broker. "We have a chapel and an embalming room, and they cost money," objects one San Diego funeral director. "We have to provide certain things, and so should they." "All we want to do is haul ashes to sea," counters Telophase Attorney Tom Sherrard, "and brokers want to sell plots and mausoleum...
...effort to stem the legal assault of the Cemetery Board and the funeral directors, Neptune's board of directors recently acquired a full-time mortician, an embalmer and a broker. But Telophase refuses to bend, and has boldly filed a countercomplaint against the Cemetery Board, charging excessive harassment. Says Neptune's Denning: "Telophase is a real maverick. We applaud them in their fight...