Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have an appealing goal in sight: a friendly kaffee- klatsch in the tradition of radio's long-running The Breakfast Club. Some of the ideas work. Bob Saget, the show's announcer and "sidekick," narrated a funny home video of his own wedding. Writers Roy Blount Jr. and Calvin Trillin were on hand with wry commentaries. And a few of the segments (like an interview with a Wall Street executive at the gym where he goes boxing before work) struck just the right, what's-new-this-morning? tone...
...Yorker's offices to protest the move. After several splenetic speeches against Newhouse, they decided to draft a letter to Gottlieb asking him to step aside in favor of an in-house candidate. The three-paragraph message was signed by 154 people, including Roger Angell, Ann Beattie, Calvin Trillin and even the hermitic J.D. Salinger, who has not published a short story in The New Yorker since 1965. "It is our strange and powerfully held conviction," read the letter, "that only an editor who has been a long-standing member of the staff will have a reasonable chance of assuring...
...cell," says Kevin Lafferty, an Australian-born immunologist who is director of research at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Denver. In 1980, however, Lafferty discovered that culturing islet cells in an oxygen-rich environment for a couple of weeks kills those that bear trigger antigens. Says Calvin Stiller, an immunologist at the University of Western Ontario: "This cultured fetal tissue can be transplanted with impunity...
...Presidents from Massachusetts: John Adams (Class of 1755), John Quincy Adams (Class of 1787), Calvin Coolidge, and John F. Kennedy...
...Eliot House, Jonathan D. Firester of Currier House, Daniel S. Glueck of Dunster House, Aaron J. Goldberg of North House, David S. Greenes of Lowell House, Bradford T. Howes of Mather House, Daniel Josell of Lowell House, Russell C. Klein of Lowell House, Daniel E. Kligensmith of Lowell House, Calvin J. Kuo of Lowell House, Donald B. Marron of Eliot House, Eliseo E. Neuman of Dudley House, TaiYun Roe of Dunster House, Evan P. Salant of Eliot House, Eugene C. Tsai of Quincy House, Samuel M. Wu of Quincy House, David E. Yarowsky of Mather House, and David I. Zuckerman...