Word: pompey
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
...daughter moved last week into a rambling white clapboard house in Fabius, N.Y. Before his office was finished, a blizzard swirling outside brought him his first emergency case: a townswoman who had fallen on ice. For both Dr. Joseph Brudny, 33, and the twin villages of Fabius and Pompey (combined pop.: about 3,000), the beginning of his practice was the fulfillment of a dream...
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...
...first visit to Biarritz just after the war. She was 16 then, luscious and very fond of the beach. Her family moved in the upper level of France's famous "200." Her father's fortune was solidly founded in Hants Fourneaux, Forges et Aciéries de Pompey (iron & steel works). Her mother Margot, née Pereire, was rated one of the best-dressed women in Paris; after divorcing Champin, Margot had married Edmund Bory, owner of the Colony-Club, a select oasis for select society near the Champs-Elys...