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Though interferon has raised the hopes of doctors and laymen alike since its discovery (in a 1960 Flash Gordon comic strip, medics used it to combat an extraterrestrial virus), it is so difficult to recover from cells that only minute quantities have been available for testing. Most interferon, including the supply that will be used in the new tests, comes from Finland, where it is extracted at great expense from white blood cells collected from Red Cross blood donors. As a result, as little as a millionth of an ounce of pure interferon costs close...
...brightest figures have tried to whip it int shape The stars are Jane Fonda, James Caan and Jason Robards. The director is Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men), a major cinematic stylist who works equally well with actors and ideas. Cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather, Interiors), though overly enraptured with the poetic uses of shadows, is one of the top craftsmen in American movies. There's only one wild card in this impressive pack: first-time Screenwriter Dennis Lynton Clark. His script is dry, but that does not absolve his colleagues from...
...Gordon Marsden, a Kennedy Fellow from England studying international relations at Harvard, read Modern History at Oxford as an undergraduate. He is an occasional contributor to the Opinion Page...
...home. Yet this fall, scores of worthy novels have issued from distinguished publishers; stories still find a loyal readership. Random House Editorial Director Jason Epstein notes that James Michener's novel Chesapeake is selling twice as well as his last one. A first novel, Final Payments by Mary Gordon, has sold 40,000 copies. Says Epstein: The outlook for U.S. fiction has "never been better...
...Dave Gordon Quartet-- Friends of Great Black Music Loft...