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McCue said last week that the task of finding his successor is still in its earliest stages, explaining that Rudenstine has only recently named an advisory committee...
McCue said last week that the task of finding his successor is still in its earliest stages, explaining that Rudenstine has only recently named an advisory committee...
...schoolteachers, Sayles grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Schenectady, N.Y. His earliest literary influences were Jack London stories, episodes of The Untouchables on TV and the Gospels at Sunday Mass. But it was the gritty realism of Nelson Algren's hobo novel, Somebody in Boots, that first gave Sayles the idea of becoming a professional writer. "Algren wrote from neck-deep in the trash of American culture, the only place I was ever likely to be," he says. After graduating from Williams College, Sayles supported himself with a series of odd jobs, ranging from nursing-home attendant...
Even critics of the Warren Commission find fault with Stone's version of events. Harold Weisberg, author of Whitewash, one of the earliest attacks on the Warren Report, calls Stone's script "a travesty" that dredges up bogus theories and unfounded speculation. Among them: the suggestion that three hobos arrested near the assassination site were involved (they were vagrants who had nothing to do with the assassination, says Weisberg), and Garrison's "discovery" that the route of Kennedy's motorcade had been changed at the last minute (a phony charge, says Weisberg, that was based on conflicting descriptions...
Kalckar premiered work in identifying the biochemical causes of disease. In one of the earliest cases in which the biochemistry of a disorder was analyzed, the researcher discovered the enzyme whose absence causes galactosemia, a genetic disorder which leads to severe mental handicaps and is characterized by an inability to use the sugar galactose...