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...hospital nurse at birth) has been sailing-in dead earnest-ever since his daddy dropped him into a dinghy at five. Starting from scratch as a messenger boy in a Wall Street brokerage house, Emil Sr. had already climbed so far as an investor that he could buy "Brook Hills," a 43-acre estate in White Plains, N.Y. George Gershwin was a frequent visitor, wrote most of Porgy and Bess in a guest cottage tucked away on a corner of the grounds. The Mosbachers wintered comfortably in Palm Beach; summers were given oyer to sailing on Long Island Sound, first...
...care; in a furious and frightening burst of violence, he overthrows the tables between him and it, and hurls himself into the kingly seat--an act of inordinate courage. (This table-throwing works supremely well here, as it did not when Paul Scofield did the same thing in Peter Brook's King Lear...
...same firm is preparing plans for the extension of the subway line into North Cambridge. It now appears that there will be a new station constructed at Porter Square and another at the intersection of the Alewife Brook Parkway and Massachusetts Avenue...
...MBTA will extend its Harvard Square line into North Cambridge, with one stop at Porter Square and another at Alewife Brook Parkway, where new repair yards will be located to replace the Bennett St. facilities across from Eliot House...
...disease is their major role in cases where the inflammatory process overshoots. The overshooting has long been clear in the case of extensive burns, when the body builds too much scar tissue, and in rheumatoid arthritis, when the inflammation becomes recurrent and does permanent, crippling damage. Reports at Brook Lodge also implicated an overzealous inflammatory reaction in some kidney diseases, and made it a suspect in two still commoner diseases, diabetes and even atherosclerosis...