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Homer became one of the U.S.'s favorite artists; he still is. Last week exhibitions of his work opened at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., and Buffalo, N.Y.'s Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Despite his popularity, the artist quit New York City in 1883 for a wave-washed promontory in Maine called Prouts Neck. There the lifelong bachelor worked in a cliffside clapboard studio. Despite his old saltitude, he ordered his natty wardrobe from Brooks Brothers and purchased $40 worth of fine Jamaican rum a month from Boston's fancy S. S. Pierce for his hourly tots...
...retirement in 1963 had devoted 41 years to counseling undergraduates, housing freshmen together for mutual aid, putting bright young professors in upper-class houses for intellectual stimulation, and opening a social and study center for commuter students; of a ruptured aneurysm of the heart; in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada...
Delmar Leighton '19, former Dean of the College, died of a heart attack Thursday at his summer home in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. He was 69 years...
...Eichmann demonstrated the banality of evil, Keitel proved its myopia. Actually, the chief of Hitler's high command was neither a Prussian nor a very convincing "war criminal." Keitel was a frustrated farmer who, on his rare wartime leaves, loved nothing more than to muck about his Brunswick estate of Helmscherode, buying new farm implements or hunting roebuck and wild boar. Almost coincidentally, he signed his name to Hitler's orders decreeing the deaths of millions. As another Nazi general wrote of Keitel later, "He was certainly not wicked au fond, as one occasionally reads...
Brewery Classrooms. Even Rutgers is poorly supported. At the main campus in New Brunswick, its history department conducts classes in a converted century-old house and a more ancient prep-school building. A Rutgers branch in Newark operates in a converted brewery and a former razor-blade factory. Salaries are tied to state civil service scales, adequate for instructors but, at a maximum of $16,000, too low to keep top professors. Raided by the State University of New York and others, New Jersey last year made an exception and offered a few professors up to $24,000, but, insists...