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Steve--an honors biochemistry concentrator--has already been recruited by six major medical schools. The reason for their interest? A stellar performance on the first Chemistry 20s hourly without the loss of his good-natured, friendly personality. For example, Steve conducts review sessions in his room before exams and loves to help a confused classmate finish a tough problem set. Steve remarks, "I like to see high means, with everyone in the class doing well. The satisfaction of a perfect score disappears when I feel others fail to understand the material...
Even Gertrude Lawrence, one of his greatest friends and favorite acting partners during the '20s and '30s, receives a small jab from the Coward scalpel. When she vacillates about accepting a part, he directs her husband "to tell Gertie to mind her manners and that if she wants another play from me she can fish for it." Yet when she dies a year or so later, he breaks down: "With all her overactings and silliness I have never known her to do a mean or an unkind thing. I am terribly, terribly unhappy to think that I shall...
...farm failures increase, young farmers are hurt disproportionately, because they are disproportionately in debt. Unless their farms were inherited, farmers in their 20s and 30s were obliged to pay a lot to get started. The average price of farm land, adjusted for inflation, increased by 75% during the 1970s to nearly $800 an acre, more than $300,000 for a typical 400-acre farm...
...company (1981 earnings: $35.4 million) that owns and operates the new venture, having acquired and refurbished 35 old Orient Express cars over five years at a cost of $20 million. To emphasize the special nature of the inaugural run last spring, for example, passengers were encouraged to wear '20s finery, and many did so. On current trips, passengers often don evening clothes for dinner, and the champagne, a special V.S.O.E. label bottled by Laurent Perrier, flows freely. And as Sherwood has promised, "The bar-salon stays open, and our pianist plays on, until the last guest has retired." "When...
...waiting to buy a ticket. Outside a theater in Washington, D.C., an elegant couple keeps cool by sipping tangerine daiquiris. Inside every theater there is applause as two names that certify movie magic appear on the screen: Steven Spielberg and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. One Boston man in his 20s exults: "This is our generation's Wizard of Oz." In Atlanta, two schoolgirls are still sobbing as they leave the theater, then segue into a spirited argument over who cried more. Back at the Cinerama Dome, the closing credits for E. T. roll by to one more standing ovation...