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...helpful treatment for a deficiency of the hormone, its benefits to non-HGH-deficient but short children are not yet well documented. Initial results from studies under way in the U.S. and Europe are only mildly encouraging. A preliminary finding of an eight-year project headed by Dr. Melvin Grumbach and Dr. Selna Kaplan at the University of California at San Francisco suggests that while about a third of the treated children grew faster through adolescence than they would have without the hormone, in the end they added only about 1 1/2 in. to their predicted adult height...
...Flambeur seems wonderfully ancient because it is. The film was made back in 1955, which means Lindbergh, Le Car and Yoplait had an easier time getting across the Atlantic. The director and co-screenwriter Jean-Pierre Melville (who died in 1973) was born Grumbach, but his passion for America led him to change his name in honor of the great American author...
...French cineastes noted that two things they admired, American genre movies and existential philosophy, had one thing in common: an admiration for the heroic figure who defined himself and his code of personal honor by plain action rather than fancy words. Writer-Director Melville (who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, borrowed his nom de screen from his favorite American novelist, and died in 1973) was then very much a cantankerous outsider in the world of official French cinema. To scrape up the financing for Bob, Melville had to be a kind of existential hero himself. It says something about...
...cast a much-needed beam of warm light on what for me has been a steadily paling view of what Harvard's community of "educated men and women" represents. I thank those professors and sincerely hope that they may further contribute some much-needed leadership and moral encouragement. Kevin Grumbach...
...Goldsmith's lawyers were appealing the decision, Grumbach left on an extended skiing vacation. "I'm very optimistic," he says of his employment prospects. He might, however, have trouble finding a publisher who wants him. Though the Grumbach case is a matter of public record, no French newspaper or magazine has mentioned it. Says Pierre Salinger, former L'Express writer and White House press secretary: "Publishers fear that knowledge of this case would give journalists too many dangerous ideas as to the extent of their rights...