Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third incident occurred minutes later at 51 Brattle Street, he said. According to a witness, a man wandered through the building asking for a "Carol Hingle." No such person was known to the building's occupants, Murphy said...
Police found Clark crouched under a stairwell in the Brattle Street building, he said. "On him were Jason Wilcox's keys," Murphy said, adding that police also found the licenses of two women on Clark's person...
Much of Wall Street and corporate America saw the board's choice of KKR as a repudiation of Johnson, who had become a symbol of executive greed after first proposing to buy out RJR (1987 sales: $15.8 billion) for $75 a share. Company directors were outraged when they read accounts, leaked by insiders, of how much Johnson and his seven colleagues planned to rake in from the deal: as much as $2.6 billion. Though Johnson later insisted he had planned to share the potential gains with 15,000 RJR employees, the battle lines were clearly drawn -- not just between Johnson...
Tail Feathers from Mother Goose (Little, Brown; $19.95) skims a famous compilation of nursery rhymes by two Oxonians, Iona Opie and her late husband Peter. Their previous books include superior verses, but no better illustrations. Some 60 prominent artists from Sendak to Nicola Bayley have given stature to such street doggerel as "Once there was a little boy,/ He lived in his skin;/ When he pops out,/ You may pop in" and George Bernard Shaw's effort for the young, presented at age 93: "Dumpitydoodledum big bow wow/ Dumpitydoodledum dandy!" Not exactly Dr. Seuss, but, as young people know, many...
...similar fascination with new topics throughout his career. As a teenager he wandered through much of Europe, ultimately setting out for the New World, where he worked as a reporter in Montreal. Later he earned a B.A. from New York University. For 16 years, Brand worked at the Wall Street Journal, where as a science reporter he won an American Association for the Advancement of Science-Westinghouse Science Journalism Award for stories on protein research and artificial intelligence. After a few years of helping edit the paper's front page, he went to London as a Journal correspondent. Among...