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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the ceiling. There was even a stereo to play Mickey's favorite music. During the long, painful hours of labor, she was free to get up and pace the corridors. Her husband Bruce was at her side during the critical moments of delivery. Almost immediately afterward, the doctor handed him the squealing infant, and the awed father was allowed to cut the umbilical cord and give his 7-lb. 8-oz. (3.4 kg) son his first bath. The baby was not taken away, but spent the night with his parents. "A beautiful experience!" Mickey exclaimed. "I would never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Special Delivery | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...Bate, whose lectures are said to be about as close to a dinner-time conversation with the Good Doctor as any Harvard student will ever find, the Pulitzer was his second. In 1964 he garnered his first Pulitzer for a biography of John Keats...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Nicer the Second Time Around | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

Captain and number-one player Todd Lundy had an even lousier day. First, Lundy found himself trailing Williams's fired-up and strong-serving Martin Goldberg early in their match. Then, after battling back to within striking distance of victory, "The Doctor" suffered the most agonizing of agonizing defeats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Breeze Past Williams, 6-3 | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

...29th of April, I'm planning to run a 10,000-meter race in Central Park. I have a ten-dollar bet with my doctor on whether or not I'll finish," Wicklund says. The septuagenarian also plans to run in October's New York City Marathon and finish in under four hours...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: A Grand, Old Runner | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

Tribute is a rich play, not brilliant but solid. The characters who surround the protagonist--his sympathetic ex-wife, tolerant, devoted doctor, et al--are stock, but Slade fuses each of them with life. As a one-time writer of sit-coms (over 100, it is reported), he must have learned how to play around with stereotypes, searching for that one little crack of humanity in which to insert his fingers, opening the character up. Scottie's business partner, for example, is a huggable, Jewish, Lou Jacobi-type (warmly played by A. Larry Haines), the character who kids in plays...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: If You Have a Lemmon, Make Tribute | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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