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Assistant Dean Calvin N. Mosley, the program's coordinator, said yesterday that the Kennedy School has been actively soliciting donations to fund the program. The proposed donation of $500,000 by Charles C. Dickinson III and Joanne W. Eaton Dickinson would be the first and only outside gift, Mosley said...
Answering criticism about the temptation to declare death prematurely, Dr. Calvin Stiller, London's transplant-unit chief, insisted Gabriel's case represented "no slippery slope." Gabriel's parents agreed. "We cried, but we cried with joy," Karen remembers. They went out, ordered champagne and "celebrated Gabriel's contribution to this world...
Also as usual, the portents went largely ignored. People yearned to believe what the authorities told them. Calvin Coolidge, on turning over the White House to Herbert Hoover earlier that year, had pronounced the U.S. economy "absolutely sound." Charles E. Mitchell, chairman of the National City Bank of New York, echoed the former President in early October by declaring that the "industrial situation of the U.S. is absolutely sound, and our credit situation is in no way critical...
...Kelly, the major leagues' youngest manager at 37, inherited a ! considerable legacy from the Twins' old owner, Calvin Griffith: a powerful first baseman, Kent Hrbek; a complete third baseman, Gary Gaetti; a reliable left-handed pitcher, Frank Viola; and a little, round outfielder, Kirby Puckett. Through the ingenuity of young General Manager Andy MacPhail, 34 -- two storied baseball names, Griffith and MacPhail -- scrappy Outfielder Dan Gladden was added, along with a pair of heavy-duty relievers, Juan Berenguer from San Francisco and Jeff Reardon from Montreal. Greg Gagne has been a joyous shortstop, and Rightfielder Tom Brunansky a force...
...time passes, all politicians (and generals) come to seem less important; what lasts is art. "Literature," said Ezra Pound, "is news that stays news." Many Americans can remember that Calvin Coolidge was the inconsequential President when Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, but as we look back, the political powers keep fading. What does anyone know about the petty princelings who ruled Germany in the time of Bach except that they were not very kind to Bach? What does anyone know about the Pope who built the Sistine Chapel except that he hired Michelangelo to paint the ceiling? What does...