Word: blaire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently signed a bill applying the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act to the District of Columbia, and Delaware became the 48th state to adopt the law in less than two years. The legislatures of the two remaining states, Nebraska and Massachusetts, will take up the measure in their next sessions. Blair L. Sadler, an attorney with the National Institutes of Health and a principal promoter of the gift acts, reports many requests for donor cards, with wording similar to that used in Utah. He predicts many more organs will soon become available for transplants...
...Alfred M. Ajami, Jr., of Terrytown, N. Y., and Lowell House (Biology): Clay P. Phipps, of Kingsport. Tenn., and Lowell House (Psychology): William A. Ball of Titusville, Pa., and Lowell House (Psychology): Lawrence R. Berger, of Jamaica, N. Y. and Dunster House (Biochemical Sciences): David H. Blair III, of Princeton, N. J. and Kirkland House (History and Literature); David Blumenthal, of New York and Leverett House (Government): Calvin S. Bruce. of Milwaukee. Wise., and Leverett House (Bi?logy); Jack D. Burke, of Richmond, Va., and Leperett House (Government); Alan C. Camphell of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Eliot House (History...
...Blair's Mutiny. Friedrich joined the Post in 1962, and he was still there when Marty Ackerman ("I'd sooner sell my wife") folded it in 1969. He thinks that the magazine's decline actually began in the '30s and '40s, when top management tried to turn Curtis into a great printing company instead of a great publishing company. But he contends that the Post could have been saved many times during its last few years, and it is the abortive attempts to save it that dominate his book...
Some of the episodes are already familiar: the mutiny led by Editor Clay Blair and Wall Street Investor Marvin Kantor against Culligan, which ended with all three walking the plank; the fling at "sophisticated muckraking," which ended in the Post's losing a $460,000 libel suit and some of its good reputation; the advent of Ackerman, who arrived like the U.S. Cavalry, complete with his own bugle call-"I am 36 years old, and I am very rich. I hope to make the Curtis Publishing Co. rich again...
...Eastern League. Dan DeMichele won the Charles H. Blair Bat. emblematic of batting superiority in the league. Harvard has now won the batting championship three consecutive years...