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...born a harm," she says. "I insisted on playing in public a year after I started the piano...
...kind of age phenomenon occurs in Parkinson's disease, or Parkinsonism. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurologists David C. Poskanzer and Robert Schwab found records of only 22 cases in 42 years before 1917; since then, there have been more than 1,800 cases. Virtually all recent victims were born within ten years of 1897, and their age at the time their disease developed has been going up steadily-from an average of 34 in 1920 to at least 61 now. The Poskanzer-Schwab explanation: most recent Parkinsonism victims were infected during a 1915-26 epidemic of encephalitis lethargica...
Talese portrays Sulzberger as a competent young man anxious to centralize and modernize the Times to make it more manageable. Being "born to the title, he had grown up within the Times, had skipped through its corridors as a child. He was never awed by the great editors that he met there, for they had always smiled at him, seemed happy to see him, treated him like a little prince in a palace and he developed early in life a sunny, amiable disposition." According to Talese, Sulzberger lacks the ambition and anxieties that Talese dislikes in others...
Friendly for Years. Lazard Freres owes its capital coup to the network of personal contacts carefully constructed by its French-born senior partner, Andre Meyer, 70. A close friend of World Bank President Robert McNamara and of outgoing Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler,* Meyer has been an adviser to Jacqueline Onassis, a trustee of Joseph Kennedy's estate and an economic consultant to President Johnson. He has long been friendly with both Smith and Deming and is particularly close to Lewis, who worked for Lazard Freres for eight years before going to Washington...
...genre itself is in doubt. The past 25 years have conclusively demonstrated that no reconstruction of human suffering, no matter how skillfully or compassionately done, can compare with the unadorned voices of the survivors, who, in autobiography and war-crimes testimony, told of their times in words born of the most painful silences...