Word: brookline
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Post Editor James R. Wiggins, and it served him as a modest vehicle for a birthday tribute to an old friend, neighbor and fellow journalist. A 58-line poem in the American carried Wiggins' byline and the following dedication: "To E. B. ('Andy') White of North Brooklin, on His Seventieth Birthday, July 11, 1969." The couplets fondly recall such White pieces as One Man's Meat and Second Tree from the Corner, then conclude with these lines...
Last week, in the comfortable Sao Paulo suburb of Brooklin, Brazilian plainclothes police, acting on information provided by Wiesenthal, picked up Stangl. He had just returned home from his mechanic's job at a Volkswagen plant, was relieved to discover that the cops were not Israeli agents, like the ones who had nabbed Adolf Eichmann. Said Stangl: "I knew I would be captured." Sighed his wife: "Franz was always an excellent head of the family, although a little too austere...
...member of the Princeton University faculty from 1905 until 1932, when he joined the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he was instrumental in selecting the famed research center's original mathematics staff, which included Albert Einstein and John von Neumann; of a heart attack; in Brooklin...
...Elwyn Brooks) White, 60, lives on a farm in North Brooklin, Me. and watches the change of seasons and the lives of men. For more than 30 years a contributor to The New Yorker, and now in semiretirement, White is a perceptive essayist; his topics range from the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun to the malaise of modern...