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DIED. Henry J. Friendly, 82, judge for 27 years on the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; an apparent suicide (by pill overdose) one year after the death of his wife of 55 years; in New York City. An Eisenhower appointee, Friendly wrote lucid and precedent-setting opinions on civil...
In all, Horowitz taught some half a dozen students between 1944 and the early '60s. It was not always a happy experience for the students. Horowitz would sometimes cancel lessons without warning if he was not in the mood. "It had its negative aspects," says Alexander Fiorillo, a professor of...
Atop the dismal failure rate, an additional 20% of those originally offered the test refused to take it, most for fear of revealing their illiteracy. From these results, Barnes projects that 17 million to 21 million adults in the U.S. cannot read. And this is only some of the bad...
Booze is the thematic undercurrent of Jimmy Breslin's fifth novel, a brutal slab of working-class life set among the Irish in the New York City borough of Queens. This is where Breslin learned his own trade as a newspaperman, reporting on the ways and means of the Archie...
I have great admiration for the astronauts. So it is with much disappointment and foreboding that I learned that one of them, Deke Slayton, wants to use the vastness of the universe for his own gain by arranging burials in space [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Sept. 29]. To have the ashes of...