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William Joseph Brennan Jr
William Joseph Brennan, Jr. 1906-97, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1956-90), b. Newark, N.J. After receiving his law degree from Harvard, he practiced law in Newark. He served as a New Jersey superior court judge (1949-50), appellate division judge (1950-52), and state supreme court... Read more |
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Craig v. Boren
Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190 (1976), argued 5 Oct. 1976, decided 20 Dec. 1976 by vote of 7 to 2; Brennan for the Court, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, and Stewart (as to result) concurring, Burger and Rehnquist in dissent. The Court announced for the first time that sex‐based... Read more |
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Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell 1905-2000, English novelist. A distinguished writer of social comedy, he is best known for his 12-volume novel sequence collectively entitled A Dance to the Music of Time, a detailed yet panoramic study of changes in the snobbish, insular world of the English upper and middle... Read more |
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Julius Lester
LESTER, Julius (Bernard) 1939- Personal Born January 27, 1939, in St. Louis, MO; son of W. D. (a minister) and Julia (Smith) Lester; married Joan Steinau (a researcher), 1962 (divorced, 1970); married Alida Carolyn Fechner, March 21, 1979 (divorced, 1993); married Milan Sabatini, August 17,... Read more |
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David Hackett Souter
David Hackett Souter 1939-, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1990-), b. Melrose, Mass. A graduate of the Harvard Law School, he served as New Hampshire's attorney general (1976-78), and on the state's superior court (1978-83) before being named to the New Hampshire Supreme Court... Read more |
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The Return of Peter Grimm
Return of Peter Grimm, The (1911), a play by David Belasco. [Belasco Theatre, 231 perf.] Peter Grimm ( David Warfield) is a kindly old man who persuades his orphan ward Katrien ( Janet Dunbar) to marry his nephew Frederick ( John Sainpolis) so that the Grimm line may continue. Katrien agrees out... Read more |
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Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney
Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney, 442 U.S. 256 (1979), argued 26 Feb. 1979, decided 5 June 1979 by vote of 7 to 2; Stewart for the Court, Marshall and Brennan in dissent. The issue in Feeney was whether a Massachusetts statute granting an absolute lifetime preference to veterans... Read more |
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Gregg v. Georgia
Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), argued 31 Mar. 1976, decided 2 July 1976 by a vote of 7 to 2; Stewart announced the decision in an opinion joined by Powell and Stevens; White, Burger, Rehnquist, and Blackmun concurring; Brennan and Marshall in dissent. With two companion cases from... Read more |
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart , 1897-1937, American aviator, b. Atchison, Kans. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane (1928) and the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic (1932). She was the first person to fly alone from Honolulu to California (1935). In 1937, she attempted... Read more |
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Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin 1922-85, English poet. He graduated from St. John's College, Oxford (B.A., 1943; M.A., 1947) and was for many years librarian at the Univ. of Hull. With an eye for the ordinary and a diction that is profoundly lucid and determinedly plain, Larkin wrote poetry of diminution that... Read more |
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Helen F. Brennan of Plymouth, 79, a homemaker.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
Helen F. (Chaisson) Brennan of Plymouth and Cape Canaveral, Fla...Dorchester Girls High School. Mrs. Brennan was active in Cedarville community...Cedarville Arts and Crafts Club. Mrs. Brennan was a communicant of St. Bonaventure... |
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WILLIAM F. BRENNAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
TROY William F. Brennan of Troy died Monday in...submarine chaser. Mr. Brennan worked for the Stratton...Survivors include his wife, Helen Miriam Marcil Brennan; three daughters, Kristin...of Waterford and Harold F. ... |
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BRENNAN.(Obit)(Obituary)
...life were reading and her family. Helen was predeceased by her husband of 43 years, James F. Brennan Sr. who died in 1982; also one...survived by her children, Anne Helen Brennan and James F. Brennan Jr., ... |
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John F. Latimer Dies; GWU Professor Emeritus
...his home in Washington. Dr. Brennan came to the National Cancer...Northwestern University. Dr. Brennan was a member of Phi Beta Kappa...Survivors include his father, John F. Brennan, and stepmother, Helen Brennan, both of ... |
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HERZOG, RICHARD F. SR.(CAPITAL REGION)
...BALLSTON LAKE -- Richard F. Herzog, Sr., 83, formerly...Master of Clinton Lodge #140 F&AM in Waterford and a member...Herzog; father of Richard F. Herzog, Jr. of Schenectady...Park; brother of the late Helen Brennan. Also survived by two ... |
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MARIE F. MCBREEN.(CAPITAL REGION)
CLIFTON PARK -- Marie F. McBreen, 65, of Clifton Park, died Saturday, August 30, 1997...was born in Winfield, Long Island, daughter of the late James and Helen Brennan McBreen. As a young girl she moved to Albany, where she received... |
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Jewel in the crown of Big Pat's pub empire; Birmingham's oldest pub this week...
...day, the young Pat Brennan would make his shuffle...pay-day. He and Helen, his bride, had...during the day. Now Helen and Pat Brennan can offer luxury overnight...as all that, says Helen, the partner in the Brennan duo most ... |
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Helen F. Baginski
Helen F. Baginski (Mrs. B) passed...Memorial Health System. One of Helen's proudest accomplishments...the Medal of Valor luncheon. Helen is preceded in death by her...survived by her sister Rosemarie Brennan and her husband Jim. She had... |
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James F. Keaney, 62 Taught at English, Umana High
James F. Keaney, a retired Boston high school teacher and veteran of service...mother, Ellen (Coleman) Keaney of Needham; five sisters, Ena Brennan of Stafford, Va., Helen Corbett of Dorchester, Elaine Keaney of Milford, Rosemarie Mascari... |
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798 give $59,776 to Holiday Fund.(Main)
...Carolyn Warden; Watervliet: Helen Somich; West Sand Lake...Daley; Selkirk: John and Helen Brennan; $66 Albany: Festival...Hubert; Latham: Mary F. McGrath; $33 Albany...by Anna Bundy; Troy: Helen Sadik; $27 Selkirk... |
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