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...this fall; she is one of four woman swimmers who have accepted Stanford's offer of a full, four-year scholarship. And Susan, at 15, has recently rocketed to world fame in the 100- and 200-meter breast-strokes--finishing a close third place to Tracy Caulkins and Terri Baxter in both contests at last summer's AAU Nationals...
...university has already cost Genentech $350,000, plus future royalty payments to the school. The money was awarded to the university for work done by one of its researchers on a hormone that induces human growth, which he brought to Genentech when he joined the company. Says John Baxter, the school's chief scientist on the project: "I really felt there should be some compensation...
...play begins with a suicide and ends with a duel. There is plenty of cynical merriment in between. At the center of the drama is an elegant couple, Friedrich Hofreiter (Keith Baxter) and his wife Genia (Jennifer Harmon). He is a light bulb manufacturer with a roving eye, and she practices blind decorum as high diplomacy...
...reporter for Hep Cat - or to Busby Berkeley. The setting is The Bronx, the characters are Italian, the language is coarse, but the story is one long, carefully embroidered cliche that has its roots in Berkeley's old Warner Bros, musicals. Ray Sharkey has the Warner Baxter role: the tough, brilliant old pro. Peter Gallagher is the ghost of Fabian with the soul of Ruby Keeler: the lucky, plucky ingenue. Sharkey nurses and rehearses his protege, shouts and seduces, puts him through heck and then shoves him onstage. Sure enough: Gallagher goes out there a young ster...
...unaffected sound. But as the group started to change, its producer changed with it, and if he did not initiate these changes and new directions, he certainly encouraged them. The Doobies, who over the years have probably had more recruits than the all-volunteer Army, picked up Guitarist Jeff Baxter from Steely Dan, and that group's inverted rhythms, strange melodic breaks and jazzy riffs began, in homogenized form, to seep into the Doobies' music. Johnston dropped out of the group in 1975-accumulated years of hard touring and hard partying had given him an acute case...