Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Edgar Austin Mittelholzer, 53, English author of 22 novels, many of them (Children of Kaywana, The Harrowing of Hubertus, Kaywana Blood) set in his native British Guiana and peopled by members of the violent, lust-crazed Van Groenwegel family; by his own hand (he soaked his clothing in gasoline, then set himself aflame); in Farnham, Surrey...
...registering gripes against police, including police complaint departments, local and federal courts and the FBI. The International Association of Chiefs of Police, which represents the nation's local law-enforcement officers, is dead set against review boards. So is the nation's top cop, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. Reporting on last summer's violent riots in Rochester and Philadelphia, the only two U.S. cities with review boards, Hoover declared: "The police were so careful to avoid accusations of improper conduct that they were virtually paralyzed. The rioters were thereby emboldened to resist and completely defy...
...Edgar Rosenberg, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English, will leave Harvard at the end of this year to accept a tenured appointment as associate professor at Cornell...
Part of this four-wheeled drive comes from his desire to top Henry J. Says Edgar: "Any time that you follow a great man-and my father was a great man-you're constantly asking yourself, 'Do I measure up?' " Aging Henry J. now lives under the Honolulu sun, devotes much of his energies to the company's 6,000-acre Hawaii Kai real estate development, into which the Kaiser enterprises have sunk more than $25 million with little return. Edgar invariably sounds Henry J. out on all major decisions, and for more than sentimental reasons...
Putnam is presently writing a book Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics, scheduled for publication early next year. Putnam said that one of the decisive factors persuading him to transfer to Harvard has been his work with Willard Van Orman Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, and Rogers G. Albritton, Professor of Philosophy...