Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the New York Yankees' Don Larsen tossed the only post-season no-hitter in professional baseball history better than forty years ago, New York Times writer Joe Tremble led with that line, encapsulating the vindication of Larsen's career-long woes by his chilling performance against the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1956 World Series...
...online skills to keep her mishpocha network connected. It includes her three children, four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, lots of nieces and nephews and some close friends. And she is keeping the network updated on her latest project: a family history starting with the move from Poland to Brooklyn. Everyone will get an e-mail copy, except for Trabish's two brothers and two sisters, who are still holding out on the revolution. "I am the oldest person in the family," she says impatiently, "and I use the computer. My nieces and nephews keep getting mad with their parents...
DIED. EDDIE RABBITT, 56, rangy country singer who, despite all his down-homey hits--among them I Love a Rainy Night and Drivin' My Life Away--was the Brooklyn-born son of Irish immigrants; after battling lung cancer; in Nashville, Tenn...
Affable and street-wise, Weill, 65, grew up middle class in Brooklyn and started his career on Wall Street in the 1950s as a messenger for Bear Stearns Co. By the early 1960s he had raised $200,000, and 15 acquisitions later he built Shearson Loeb Rhoades into the nation's second largest brokerage. In 1981 American Express bought Shearson, and Weill tagged along, hoping one day to succeed CEO James Robinson. He preceded him instead, leaving in 1985; Robinson was bounced...
...roommate. At a dinner party, George Hanson (Paul Rudd) learns from Nina (Jennifer Aniston), a total stranger, that he's about to be dumped by his college professor boyfriend (a disastrously miscast Tim Daly). Fortunately, Nina is sympathetic and almost unrealistically trusting, offering him the spare room in her Brooklyn apartment. George accepts Nina's generous invitation--and their relationship predictably begins...