Word: england
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More gifts, snapshots, and letters from all members of the firm fly back and forth across the Atlantic as Hanfff is welcome into their spiritual family, "the England of English literature," as Hanff writes. A trip to 84 Charing Cross Road will make you want to join as well...
DIED. Richard Ellmann, 69, scholarly author of James Joyce, the definitive biography of the Irish novelist, and the first American to become a professor of English literature at Oxford University; of pneumonia brought on by a motor-neuron ailment commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease; in Oxford, England...
Some 250 heart-lung transplants have been performed in the U.S. since 1981; two-thirds of the patients survived the first year, and 25% have lived more than five years. Surgeons in England have demonstrated that the procedure can work well on CF patients. One woman there has survived for 20 months with a new heart and lungs. "She is living a reasonably normal life, working at a library," reports Biochemist Robert Beall of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Bethesda, Md. Before surgery, he says, the woman "had to be carried from bed to bathtub." Especially encouraging is the fact...
Duncan is a member of the Rhode Island Gulls, New England's entry in the eight-team summer professional basketball league. And for the past two weeks, while most of Cambridge has sweated through finals, Duncan has been in Rhode Island, finishing a few papers for his classes and and playing pro ball...
Sophomore Michael Gibbs, junior Nathan Koenig, and freshman Cory Thabit were honored based on their respective performances in the New England Invitational, last month's Ivy League championships and last week's all-star game in Newport...