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...novel follows the lives of five Harvard men from their freshman registration in 1954 to 1983, the year of their 25th reunion. Brooklyn-born Segal is a member of this class of '58, although the closest the book gets to an artist-celebrity is Daniel Rossi, a California kid whose reputation as one of the world's great pianists is established faster than one can say veritas...
Much of the credit for the stunning record belongs to Murphy, 59, the Brooklyn-born Harvard M.B.A. who was Capital Cities' first employee. In 1954 he was put in charge of a near bankrupt Albany television station bought by the broadcaster Lowell Thomas and a partner. Murphy took a "waste not, want not" approach from the start. Noticing that his ramshackle headquarters building was badly in need of paint, he immediately spruced up the two sides that were visible from the road...
DIED. Alexander Scourby, 71, plummy-voiced actor and narrator of television and film, including Victory at Sea (1954); of an apparent heart attack; in Boston. The Brooklyn-born Scourby began on the New York stage in 1936 as a Shakespearean actor. Though he protested, "What actor wants to be known as a voice?" the rich timbre of his instrument took him early to advertising voice-overs, where he was said at one time to be the highest-priced voice in the business, and to Talking Books for the Blind, where he recorded more than 400 works, including the complete King...
...politician who was not invited to visit the presidential residence last week was Rabbi Meir Kahane, 52, the Brooklyn-born head of the Kach Party. Not that the snub dismayed him. The founder of the New York City-based Jewish Defense League, who emigrated to Israel with his special brand of right-wing extremism in 1971, was still savoring one of the most divisive victories in last month's elections. Three times before, he had tried and failed. His success was yet another indication that the Israeli electorate was shifting to the right...
...seats, ten more than in 1981. Tehiya, a rightist offshoot of Likud, fared best with five seats, while Yahad, a party founded last March by the popular Ezer Weizman, who resigned as Begin's Defense Minister in 1980, won three. The Kach movement, an ultranationalist group headed by Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, who retains his U.S. citizenship,* won its first seat. "In my first [Knesset] speech, I am going to make an issue of throwing out the Arabs," he said. "We will drive this country crazy. We will make this country Jewish again...