Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME discovered Gordon Bok [Jan. 22]? What city-slicker spies were hiding among "we happy few" who trooped time and again to local fairs or high school gyms in snowstorms to hear this modest...
...hour-long lecture on the birth of Baby Brown and other hitherto unpublicized facets of the British pair's research. The talk had a dramatic effect. Rising to their feet, the 1,200 doctors and biomedical specialists gave Steptoe a rousing ovation. Said Society President Dr. S. Jan Behrman: "We now know what he did. No one can say that he fudged...
...revealed that he and Edwards had made 32 attempts between November 1977 and August 1978 to implant embryos conceived in a laboratory dish into a mother's womb. Four pregnancies resulted from these implants, but only two led to the birth of healthy children-Louise Brown and, on Jan. 14 in Scotland, Alastair Montgomery. Both were premature, Steptoe said, but now are "flourishing, normal babies...
When the first episode of Roots aired on Jan. 23, 1977, there were no signs that a phenomenon was in the making. Not only had ABC'S mini-series been dismissed in advance by many TV critics, but it had already been rated as a long shot by the programmers and admen who run network television. Up to the last minute there were plenty of commercial spots for sale on Roots. ABC itself projected only a passable 28% to 31% share of the audience for the show; CBS and NBC concurred, scheduling only routine fare against...
Haley can even pinpoint the moment his old world stopped. It was Jan 31, 1977, the morning after the last episode of Roots was aired. Many writ ers find their lives altered by a bestselling book, but perhaps no other writer in history, from Homer to Norman Mailer, has been hit so hard so suddenly with so great a success. Roots as a book was already a bestseller; then came the TV triumph, which sent hundreds of thousands of additional read ers out to look for the book, making it the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller...