Word: rodgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobody was good enough for him," cried the landlady bitterly, after the cops labored up the stairs of her sleazy Queens, N.Y. rooming house to view the body of Rodger P. Stewart, 70, dead of natural causes. "Wouldn't let me in his room. He was sitting in there tonight with the window open. I said, 'You're freezing out the house!' He said, 'Don't you come in,' and he started to push me out. Then he fell back in his chair with his eyes staring...
...Nothing but misery," said the landlady. The cops patiently examined the heavy figure on the chair. Rodger P. Stewart's suit had holes in the knees. His shoes were run down. There were a few prunes in the room, some stale bread and some rice. The cops listened to a recital of the old man's Spartan way of life: he had risen every day at 5, had gone to Mass, then to a public library to read. He had no visitors. He retired each night at 7. Some of the policemen recalled that he cadged dimes...
...this, the landlady complained, Rodger P. Stewart had been "haughty." He had told her, she said with a sniff, all sorts of tales: that he had been a handball champion between 1900 and 1910, that he had once run a sporting-goods business in Manhattan. Nevertheless, none of this had kept him from borrowing her radio, breaking it, and refusing to have it fixed...
Japanese Communist leaders knew about the North Korean invasion at least ten weeks before it happened, Rodger A. Swearingen, Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center, said yesterday in a radio interview...
...team yesterday elected as captain William Stix Wasserman, Jr. '48, of New York City and Leverett House. He succeeds Rodger P. Nordblom...