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...Have a jelly bean," she suggested, as if to impart the therapeutic properties of a librium to a piece of candy. I popped one in my mouth anyway...

Author: By Mike Silk, | Title: Blood 'n Guts | 5/6/1975 | See Source »

...Grandson of a slave, Alabama-born Julian won honors at Harvard and the University of Vienna on his way to garnering over 130 chemical patents. His pioneering work with soybeans led to discoveries ranging from a drug for treating glaucoma to aerofoam, the Navy's fire-extinguishing "bean soup" of World War II. But he was best known for his low-cost method of synthesizing cortisone, which made him both a millionaire and a major financial angel to the civil rights movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 5, 1975 | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...Strindberg play, apparently from his paranoid-expressionist period, at the Ex this weekend. Strindberg's best plays have an intensity sometimes locking in the work of his more famous older contemporary bean and been, who had a picture of Strindberg hanging in his study, know it. "It's gotten to the point that I can't work without his mad eyes staring down at me," he is supposed to have said...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: THE STAGE | 2/20/1975 | See Source »

...University has maintained since May, when the Organizing Committee bean circulating petitions, that the Medical Area is not an appropriate unit for a union, since it excludes Harvard employees based in Cambridge who also do clerical and technical work...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Med Area Workers Will Petition NLRB For Union Election | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...someone who cooks his own in a Radcliffe co-op, may I suggest that Mr. Kupferberg rethink his opposition to the cheese souffle, the rice and bean casserole, and the friendly omelette? Who knows? He might even decide to live in a co-op like Radcliffe's Jordan K, where, as in the real world, switching to five meaty days a week would be no cutback. Adam Glass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUR ANTI-BACCHANALIAN? | 1/7/1975 | See Source »

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