A Friendship That Ages Well

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Issue: October 31, 1997

October 31, 1997 A Friendship That Ages Well By James Rothschild The phone rang at my desk one late afternoon in May. A voice that was at first unfamiliar intoned, "Is this the Jimmy Rothschild from the class of '56 at Rutgers?" It turned out to be Richie Berkowitz, whom I'd lost track of some 40 years ago.

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