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...fellowship recipients are Assistant Professors of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94 and Hongkun Park, Assistant Professors of Computer Science Avrom J. Pfeffer and Salil P. Vadhan, and Assistant Professors of Physics Eugene A. Demler, Andrew D. Foland, Shiraz Minwalla, and Masahiro Morii...
Some of Reagan's own Energy Department staffers share that opinion. Avrom Landesman, the man now in charge of prosecuting the oil companies, told a House Government Operations subcommittee last week that he had written a report describing how the reduced budget would cripple his efforts. But his new superiors at DOE, Landesman testified, urged him to rewrite the report and downplay the impact of the budget cuts. An internal DOE memo obtained by Subcommittee Chairman Toby Moffett of Connecticut maintained that the oil probe could earn the Treasury at least $600 million in additional payments from the companies...
This was no sudden shift for Actress Taylor, who had been raised as a Christian Scientist. She first thought of adopting the Jewish faith when she married her third husband, the late Mike Todd-born Avrom Goldbogen, grandson of a Polish rabbi. Her friendship with Singer Eddie Fisher, a Jew, may have increased her concern with Judaism. About six months ago she began studying under Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Hollywood's Temple Israel...
Dames & Comedy. Too much money was not always a problem; Mike Todd's personal finances, like an anesthetist's bag, alternately puffed and collapsed. Fifty years or so ago in Minnesota, when he was Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, son of a Polish rabbi, the family was poor. But before he was 20, he and his brother Frank had made and lost nearly $1,000,000 in Chicago real estate ventures. His later success as a Broadway producer ("I believe in giving the customers a meat-and-potatoes show. Dames and comedy") brought in big money almost as fast...
Married. Mike Todd, 49, (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen), stem-winding, cigar-chewing Hollywood entrepreneur (Around the World in 80 Days); and Elizabeth Taylor, 24, brunette cinemactress (Giant); both for the third time, a week after her Mexican divorce from Cinemactor Michael (The Egyptian) Wilding; in Puerto Marqués, Mexico...