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...HAVEN, Conn.--Just when you start dreaming about the Harvard men's hockey team, it has a funny way of snapping you back to reality...
DIED. ARNOLD HUTSCHNECKER, 102, psychotherapist to Richard Nixon whom the President consulted by phone and twice received at the White House; in Sherman, Conn. Nixon first visited the doctor in 1951 for back pain, after reading his book on psychosomatic illnesses. Hutschnecker spoke little of his patient until after Nixon's death. The President was not seriously disturbed, he said, but exhibited many "neurotic symptoms," acceptable qualities in a leader. Hutschnecker advocated "mental-health certificates" for politicians...
...more than 100,000 candidates in the initial screen, says Molinoff, head of neuroscience drug discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, only two were deemed promising enough to continue working on. That was in 1996. Now, thanks to the efforts of nearly 40 scientists--some at Bristol-Myers' Wallingford, Conn., research institute, others at SIBIA Neurosciences, based in La Jolla, Calif.--the number of compounds derived from these two templates has expanded to more than a thousand...
DIED. JASON ROBARDS, 78, gritty stage and screen actor, renowned for his performances in Eugene O'Neill plays, who won back-to-back Oscars for All the President's Men and Julia; in Bridgeport, Conn. (see EULOGY, below...
DIED. VICTOR BORGE, 91, hammy pianist and conductor whose one-man Broadway show, Comedy in Music, ran a record 849 performances; in Greenwich, Conn. Borge originally trained as a concert pianist in his native Denmark, but eventually began incorporating satire and sight gags into his act. A Jew, he fled Europe to escape the Nazis, arriving in the U.S. speaking no English but ultimately perfecting his act to gain worldwide acclaim...