Word: pompey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VIEW FROM POMPEY'S HEAD (409 pp.) - Hamilton Basso - Doubleday...
...View from Pompey's Head, by Hamilton Basso, a successful New York lawyer is forced by a legal complication to return to his Southern home town for the first time in 15 years. So home he goes, dipping back into his stucco and magnolia origins, reappraising his whole adult life, and raising the shades of youthful loves before finally drawing the shade upon his past...
...news was the civil war raging between Pompey and Caesar. There was a sharp cartoon about Cicero, whose indecision in the crisis was lampooned in a caption, "Otium Cum Dignitate" (inaction with dignity). There had been strange doings at the Circus Maximus: two gladiators got tangled up with the umpires and decapitated one of them. The weather forecast: "Frigidus." Such was the state of the world last week as reported in Britain's only Latin newspaper, Acta Diurna (Daily Register...
Hospitable N.Y. Fabius and Pompey, about 17 miles southeast of Syracuse, had been without a doctor for five years. Last fall Dr. Brudny, then admitting physician at Brooklyn's Cumberland Hospital, was driving around upstate New York, trying to find a place to settle. The Onondaga County Medical Society referred him to Fabius. Dr. Brudny liked the place, but he had no money to buy a home and office. A Polish-born D.P. and a survivor of Nazi labor camps, he had been in the U.S. less than two years...
...town fathers put their heads together, then their dollars. A corporation was formed which sold $9,000 in shares at $25 each to the people of Fabius and Pompey. The corporation bought a house and remodeled it. Dr. Brudny moved in, with the understanding that if he still likes the place after a year, he may buy the house from the corporation. If not, he may move out, and Fabius-Pompey will look for a new medical...