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DIED. JOSEPH ZIMMERMANN, 92, answering-machine inventor; in Brookfield, Wis. In 1948, when this U.S. Army Signal Corps veteran and enterprising engineer couldn't afford a secretary, he rigged up an 80-lb. contraption that used a lever to lift a phone receiver, a 78-r.p.m. record player to convey a personalized greeting, and a wire recorder to capture callers' 30-sec. messages. More than 6,000 of these "electronic secretaries" were in use by 1957, when he and a partner sold the patent to General Telephone Corp...
Even beyond economics, community-supported agriculture is about something deeper: a sense of common good uniting those who plant and those who eat. Most CSAs don't advertise--people find out about them by word of mouth or through websites such as csacenter.org Many have waiting lists. At Brookfield Farm in Amherst, Mass., which serves more than 500 Boston-area homes, shareholders are raising $150,000 to build a new barn. At Watershed, subscribers bring lawn chairs just to sit and watch, beaming like proud parents over the swath of farmland they have saved from suburban sprawl. And at Huasna...
...Brookfield Correspondence stationary will make you think twice about using looseleaf in your monthly letter to grandma. Patterns in blue, red, green and grey. Eight folder cards, eight envelopes, printed letterpress. $11.95. Bob Slate Stationary...
Daigneau, playing in front of friends and family from Brookfield, Wis., stopped 25 shots and improved to 2-0-0 this season, with a solid 2.00 goals against average...
Rounding out the freshman class is goaltender John Daigneau of Brookfield...