Word: creators
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of the President's Science Advisory Group under Nixon and Johnson and John F. McCarthy, Jr. a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT will debate the merits of the B-1 bomber. (Oddly enough, Garwin will speak against the bomber, and McCarthy in favor.) Roger Fisher, the creator of the television debate program "The Advocates" and a professor at Harvard Law School, will serve as moderator...
Died. Munro Leaf, 71, creator of Ferdinand the Bull in a 1936 children's story that has since been translated into 16 languages and sold 2.5 million copies; of cancer; in Garrett Park, Md. Leaf taught high school before writing and illustrating dozens of children's books. Ferdinand, the peace-loving bull who would rather sniff flowers than fight, later starred in a Walt Disney movie, and was used to sell merchandise from cereal to diamond pins...
Angell eschews, with unjustifiable modesty, comparison with the métier's creator, whom he salutes in a touching envoi: "Farewell, upstate harp of Tamil Vale, Frank, sweet bird of Saratoga . . ." New Yorker Editor William Shawn, however, is pleased. "If Frank Sullivan knew about it, he would be pleased too," says Shawn. Or as Angell concludes, and Sullivan would have: "Peace on each land beneath the sun/ Good friends, God bless us, every...
...imply that a collection of colored smears and slobberings and pieces of a pack-rat nest is art and its creator Robert Rauschenberg is an artist is akin to saying that what Jack the Ripper did was surgery and he was a surgeon...
Neither Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner nor Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has, obviously, the mature appeal of an Angie Dickinson. But Los Angeles-born Wagner, who did a couple of low-budget features (notably Paper Chase), has potential. The show's creator, Ken Johnson, says he modeled her character after an ideal date he had in mind, someone "truthful, witty and eminently attractive," and Wagner seems to fill the bill. Says Wagner: "I'm trying like hell not to be Wonder Woman." Carter, 24, who is trying like hell to put that character across, is a former swimming champion...