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...Kent Lanahan of Villanova, Pa. In 1949, at 19, he was standing on the running board of a car when it swerved into a utility pole. The crash crushed the young man's skull, broke his collarbone and punctured a lung. He was in a coma with a 107° fever and high pulse when doctors decided to cease treatment. A neighbor lent the parents a piece of Neumann's cassock. Soon after they touched Kent with the cloth he began to recover. Now a music teacher, Kent Lanahan says, "They couldn't explain what happened...
...Before Fairbank there was a darkness about Asia. Every course ended in 1793 with the death of the emperor Ch'ien-lung. Everything else was journalism," says Theodore H. White '38, the author of The Making of the President books and Thunder Out of China, who was Fairbank's first undergraduate tutee. Fairbank, who is retiring this year as Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History after 41 years on the Faculty, led the way out of that darkness, making modern China part of the American intellectual world. With a single-minded devotion that America's China missionaries would have envied...
...environment in which they work or live, to their personal diet or way of life." In industrialized societies, environmental factors have already been proved to be responsible for up to 40% of all human cancers; for example, doctors have found a high incidence of an otherwise rare form of lung cancer in workers exposed to asbestos, and are discovering another rare form of liver cancer among those who have worked with vinyl chloride. In 1958, a British physician named John Higginson was challenged by a skeptical scientific community when he suggested that 70% to 80% of all cancers are environmental...
Died. Paul Desmond, 52, jazz musician whose lyrical, witty alto saxophone counterpointed Dave Brubeck's assertive piano in Brubeck's quartet for 17 years; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Desmond composed few pieces for the group, but his Take Five, inspired by the sound of a Nevada slot machine, was the first instrumental jazz number to sell over a million copies...
They were Bell: self-described sleep-eyes cowlicky, lanky, lefty country boy, Marxist from east Kentucky. He was ugly, but endearingly ugly, with black hair that flopped over his ears and into his eyes. He always looked wet, and fixin' to die from pleurisy and lung concer from the Lucky Strike that was always in the corner of his mouth. Like a big bedraggled hairy bassett hound, with great hazel eyes and a wet nose. He wore a coat he's finagled from the Freshman Coat Fund two winters ago, or a corduroy jacket he'd bought second-hand, levis...