Word: lynbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profanist. Whittaker Chambers was born in 1901 in Philadelphia, the elder of two sons of Jay Chambers, who made a precarious living as a commercial artist. The family stock was a mixture of Dutch, German, French and English. When young Whittaker was three, his family moved to Lynbrook, L.I., where Mrs. Chambers raised chickens and vegetables to piece out the family income. As a child, Chambers slaughtered fowl and peddled vegetables. He was a boy of insatiable curiosity who read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment at eleven, and wandered on solitary walks through the woods, which he loved...
...cells" and in the innermost circles of the Communist underground. He buried his identity so successfully that some of his accomplices thought he was a Russian; one of them was positive that he was a Russian ex-colonel. The little boy who had peddled vegetables in Lynbrook became a skillful and consecrated agent of a Communist "apparatus...
...Lynbrook...
Hans G. Hachmann, New York City, Evander Childs High School; David D. Harrower, Lynbrook, New York, Woodmere Academy; Herbert S. Kassman, Ithaca, Ithaca High School; Robert W. Marshlow, Kenmore, New York, Kenmore Senior High School; James W. Murphy, Brooklyn, James Madison High School; William M. Shenck, Rome. New York, Rome Free Academy; Alan J. Simmons, New York City, Birch Wathen School; Robert J. Stampfl, Peekskill, New York, Peekskill Military Academy; Wallace A. Weeks, Brooklyn, Beverly High School, Beverly, Massachusetts; and Edward H. Winter, Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie High School...
...York; David Middleton '42, New York; Paul J. Miller, Jr. '42, Poughkeepsie; Henry W. Munroe '43, New York; Robert G. Nassau '42, Brooklyn; Sol Schnayerson '42, Brooklyn; Alan G. Skelly '43, Brooklyn; Charles C. Smith '41, Port Chester; Richard S. Suter '41, New York; Robert H. Troescher '43, Lynbrook, L.I.; Richard B. Wolf '41, New York; and Adam Yarmolinski '43, New York...