Word: graff
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...first abnormal cells get that way? The experts cannot agree. Columbia University's Dr. Samuel Graff expresses the current consensus: all cancerous cells are the result of mutation, and mutations can be set off by many known factors-inherited defective genes, radiation by X or gamma rays, ultraviolet light, many chemicals, including some of the huge class of hydrocarbons, physical irritation of tissues, and certainly in some animal cancers by the invasion of a virus. There may be other, still unknown factors causing mutation...
Also elected were Treasurer Michael S. Moehlman '60, of Lowell House and Austin, Texas, and Publicity Director N. Walter Graff '61, of Eliot House and Sioux Falls...
...success of both series is due largely to Producer Bob Graff, 37, an ex-U.P. reporter who helped put together the award-winning Assignment: India and has worked on the Wisdom series for three years. Graff credits Pat Weaver, sometime president of NBC, with the original idea ("Wouldn't it be great if we could get Michelangelo and Shakespeare on the tube?" Pat said). Of the 26 shows that Graff will run off on consecutive Sundays at 2:30 E.D.T., seven will be entirely new, e.g., visits with Jacques Lipchitz, Igor Stravinsky, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn...
...Look Here! (Sun. 3:30 E.D.T.) Graff has drawn up another impressive roster: Dorothy Parker, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Edith Hamilton, Jimmy Hoffa, Noel Coward, Jack Kennedy, Ethel Merman, Kukla, Fran and Ollie. He and Agronsky also plan to fly to Havana to interview Dictator Batista via the nation's first "over-the-horizon" TV transmission system, which opened last week. "In every case," says Graff, "we are looking for the real essence of the man. We're trying to show, rather than show up, character...
...Prades, France, where Casals has lived in self-imposed exile from Franco Spain since the end of the civil war, the 78-year-old artist played two selections on the cello for another in NBC's Wise Men series. The fascinating part of the film, produced by Robert Graff, was the man rather than the musician. Out of the conversation, Casals' personality rose cleanly, buttressed by the serenity of a man who lives by his convictions...