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...nature, Shostakovich was a reticent man. He was born in St. Petersburg, the son of a chemist. In a rare interview, he said that the most powerful memory of his childhood was hanging around outside a neighbor's door when the man was practicing music. To make money while studying at the Leningrad Conservatory, he tried playing the piano for silent films. Unfortunately he was too busy watching the screen to pay attention to the score. He was sacked...
Parsons, 59, spent five years devising his system. An eccentric polymath who trained as a research chemist at London University, he is now press officer for the British Library. He worked on his directory at home while watching television. "I continue to be astonished that such a simple test should be adequate to distinguish more than 10,000 classical themes," he says modestly. His publishers are even more surprised at the volume's brisk sales. Before reviews appeared, and despite a stiff hardback price of ?6 (about $14), bookshops began reordering...
...fact, there was. In the 1930s, Robert A. Greene, a chemist at the University of Arizona's College of Agriculture, noted that there was a remarkable chemical similarity between jojoba-bean oil and that of the sperm whale. Other researchers confirmed his findings; the university's Office of Arid Lands Studies still publishes an occasional bulletin called Jojoba Happenings to promote cultivation of the bean. But until recently sperm-whale oil was still plentiful, and efforts to substitute jojoba oil did not attract much commercial enthusiasm...
...rubber-faced doyenne of domestic comedy; from her husband of ten years, Actor-Singer Warde Donovan, 59; in Los Angeles. Ms. Diller's courthouse exit line: "We have a great settlement. I got the house and I gave him the gate." - ∙ Died. Marguerite Perey, 65, pioneering research chemist; of cancer; in Paris. At 20, Perey began working as a laboratory assistant to Marie Curie at the French Radium Institute. In 1939 she isolated francium, the 87th element in the periodic table. Cancer, probably caused by her work with radioactive elements, had already afflicted her when she was elected...
...Soviet Union surprised U.S. experts by testing its first nuclear bomb. A natural fear that the Russians had stolen the secret was encouraged by a series of shocking facts: the 1950 arrest of English Physicist Klaus Fuchs, who confessed to supplying Russia with atomic information; the admission by Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold that he had been Fuchs' American courier; the arrest of David Greenglass, an Army machinist at Los Alamos during World War II. Greenglass was Ethel Rosenberg's brother. He told the FBI that he had been Gold's accomplice. He added that his brother...