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...Homer Collyer and his brother Langley grew up just before the gas chandelier, the camisole and the Prince Albert coat vanished from the American scene. Their father was a well-known and wealthy Manhattan gynecologist, their mother an educated woman who read the classics aloud to them in Greek. They were fondly reared; they were trained to be gentlemen & scholars. Homer became an admiralty lawyer. Langley went in for engineering and developed a talent for the piano...
...they were shy young men and showed little inclination to brave the noisy world. In 1909, when Homer was 27 and Langley 23, they were still living with their parents in a handsome, three-story brownstone on upper Fifth Avenue. Then their father & mother separated. The brothers began shutting themselves off from life...
...flew into a rage. "Obscene-obscene picador," she screamed that day in 1875, in a voice that shook the Delaplain brownstone mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y. Selfish sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...
...happened before. Mt. Etna was a familiar story to Julius Caesar and Pericles. Even before Homer's day, Sicilians were fleeing from their huts pursued by Etna's lava. Geologists estimate that Etna broke through the earth's crust in the middle Pleistocene period, some 300,000 years...
Boomerang! is based on a case in the early career of the former U.S. Attorney General Homer Cummings. It was photographed, completely outside the studio, in the streets, houses, churches and civic buildings of Stamford, Conn. A number of ordinary citizens get effectively into the act, though most of the speaking roles are handled by skilled professionals...