Word: greenwich
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Died. Graham Edgar, 67, chemist and longtime (1932-52) vice president of Ethyl Corp., developer of the octane scale for measurement of the antiknock quality of motor fuels, pioneer in research that led to the production of 100-octane (high efficiency) gasoline; of leukemia; in Greenwich, Conn...
Long Live the King. De Sapio had to fight every inch of the way to where he is. Even his nativity carried a brand that still sears his political outlook. He was born 46 years ago, an Italian in an Irish sea. The lower Greenwich Village neighborhood of his birth was about 95% Irish, about 5% Italian. (Today, the ratio in that neighborhood is almost precisely reversed.) His father, Gerard De Sapio, came to the U.S. at the age of ten from Avellino, some 30 miles inland from Naples. Recalls Gerard: "We were on a flat-bottomed scow, maybe like...
Visiting U.S. yachts sailed away with the major trophies, e.g., the yawl Carina II, owned by Richard Nye of Greenwich, Conn., won the New York Yacht Club Challenge Cup and the Britannia Cup; the sloop Maybee VII, owned by William L. Horton of Los Angeles, won the six-meter class race. Some Cowes oldtimers complained that British yachting's golden days were over. True, all the great sailing dinosaurs like the 100-1 30-ft. transatlantic "J-Boats" of the Liptons and the Sopwiths had been killed by war and taxes...
...this and of his own Goodbye, Graves was able to settle down on five stony acres in the Spanish island of Majorca. Except when driven home by war, Graves has lived there ever since, enjoying the "best &weather in Europe " and "the only sea, the Mediterranean," without abandoning the Greenwich meridian (which passes through London but misses Majorca by about 130 miles). "Those who stay out of England develop a much better sense of the English language," says Graves, but I could never live far off from the Greenwich meridian...
...love on the sidewalks of Manhattan and watches it sprout amid the chewing-gum wrappers like a blade of grass between slabs of city concrete. Eddie Slocum and Pamela Oldenburg are waiflike 20-year-olds who meet in the subway. Eddie is a college student who shares a Greenwich Village walk-up with a couple of buddies and goes through a local education factory as mechanically as if he were an IBM card being punched for semester credits. Nicknamed "The Groper," Eddie has a case of moral acne, and itches with integrity in a world he thinks the phonies have...