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Dates: during 1970-1979
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sand, and in the water opposite the Carlton Hotel, where the big-money deals are made, bobbed a flotilla of eight boats, each with a different letter painted on its sail: SUPERMAN...
Alas, Tish's prose style, though always functional, has all the resonance of a schoolgirl's field hockey stick. Her sample "letter of apology for having seriously offended someone" sounds a little like W.C. Fields: "Dear Hank, There is no way I can erase the tragic error of my bumbling tongue." So with a letter to a colleague about a son who has just won a scholarship to Yale: "You and your wife must be bursting forth with unmitigated but understandable pride...
...Wolfe, then a National Institutes of Health researcher, began working with Nader. Three years later, they collaborated on a letter to the FDA warning that many bottles of intravenous fluid were contaminated with bacteria that had caused 150 cases of infection and nine deaths. They protested that the FDA's proposed solution?continued use of the bottles with added precautions?was shockingly inadequate. Two days later the agency issued a recall of millions of contaminated bottles...
...existing FDA records linking phenformin, a drug used by one-fifth of all diabetics taking oral medication, to bad reactions in 190 cases and 93 deaths. Califano responded by invoking the "imminent hazard" law, which had never before been used, and banned the substance. Only last month, following another letter from Wolfe, Califano issued a sweeping warning about the dangers of DES, a drug once given to pregnant women to help prevent miscarriages that has since been shown to produce cancer or genital disorders in these women and their offspring...
DIED. Janet Planner, 86, writer and correspondent whose "Letter from Paris," by-lined "Genet," appeared regularly in The New Yorker for almost 50 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Indianapolis, Planner worked briefly as a newspaper film critic and traveled throughout Europe before settling in Paris in 1922. Three years later, New Yorker Editor Harold Ross hired the American expatriate, and for the next five decades she filed erudite portraits of French society. A graceful, exacting stylist, Planner also wrote profiles on figures as diverse as Adolf Hitler and Queen Mary of England...