Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among entertainers and the arts: Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Ginger Rogers, Jack Paar, Leontyne Price, Bert Lahr, John Gunther, Edward Hopper, Minoru Yamasaki...
...grasped the significance of the opportunity. Dr. J. Hartwell Harrison removed Twin Ronald's healthy left kidney. Dr. David Hume implanted it in Richard's flank, and it took, though Richard died this year of heart disease. Of 19 other identical-twin transplants, 17 made a good start. But over the years, three patients have died of recurrent kidney disease. "So now we know," says Dr. Moore, "that the critical factor is glomerulonephritis [a form of kidney inflammation involving the small capillary loops or glomeruli], and that these people have a tendency to get the same disease again...
...project is a swath of promenades and skyscrapers covering 40 blocks. Designed by Architects Wallace K. Harrison (the new Metropolitan Opera House, Rockefeller Center) and George A. Dudley, and the Albany firm of Blatner and Williams, the mall will be centered around a 2,800-ft. concourse of reflecting pools and fountains stretching from State Street, just in front of the present capitol, to Madison Avenue. Principal building will be the 43-story State Office Tower, which, with seven other office buildings, will house state offices now scattered in nearly 90 separate locations around the city...
...understand this is the largest government project of its kind anywhere in the country," says Architect Harrison. "It's certainly going to be one of the few places in the world where that American invention, the skyscraper, is given its proper place in relation to the buildings around...
...most interesting role. Much of the time, too, Mankiewicz appears to be describing Burton as well as the Antony of history. "There is something about Antony which escapes you and me," says one character, "but for which women will forsake the living and forget the dead." Poor Rex Harrison, who went off to Rome a sex symbol and came away an old man, plays Julius Caesar and is actually the dominant figure in the first half of the film?but his beetly brow has ended up in a postage-stamp insert in a remote corner of that celebrated advertising poster...