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Donald M. Gleklen Newtown Square...
Walter Weir Newtown...
...gasoline trucks for a month or so and making themselves a nice piece of change. So far, they have knocked over at least 15 belonging to Texaco, Mobil, Exxon and others. The companies store gasoline and oil in Greenpoint, a factory area in Brooklyn where the barges come up Newtown Creek and unload. The gas is trucked around New York City, and it does not take a genius to know that the trucks all have to take the same main roads...
Susan van Riper Newtown, Conn...
DIED. Louis Untermeyer, 92, prolific anthologist and arbiter of popular taste in American verse; in Newtown, Conn. A captive of what he called "the poetic ictus," Untermeyer dropped out of a family jewelry business to write poems and later became the editor of more than 50 poetry anthologies, which helped establish such writers as Robert Frost and Amy Lowell. As critic, biographer, satirist and lecturer, Untermeyer helped lead the literary revolt against Victorian gentility and later became one of the most energetic public advocates of the art form he called "an effort to express the inexpressible in terms...