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...proliferation has so alarmed the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education that it has declared a moratorium on certifying new programs until next June. "Specialization is very appropriate; we need it because of the fast pace of medical research," says Dr. Carlos Martini, vice president of education for the A.M.A. and author of the J.A.M.A. report. "But when everybody becomes specialized, then it's a problem. Someday, if we're not careful, we'll have people who want to specialize in the left elbow and not the right...
...Batman TV series, Burgess Meredith played Penguin as a kind of deranged F.D.R. This was not for DeVito. "I didn't see myself playing a weird Nick Charles with a martini glass and a tuxedo," he says. "It just didn't tickle my fancy." Then Burton showed him a painting he had done of "a toddler with a big round head and big eyes and a protrusion in the nose and mouth and a bulbous body with little appendages. And there was a caption that said, 'My name is Jimmy, but they call me the hideous penguin...
...three-martini lunch is a thing of the past," Winsten said, citing a "much greater social conscience in American business" in recent years...
...leading lady in the nose. The show's Adelaide, Vivian Blaine, remembers him more fondly: "A lovable, raucous man with a deliciously evil laugh." Ever restless, he'd catch a few hours' sleep, start his composing (on a silent piano) at 4 a.m. and be ready for a martini at 8 a.m. "After all," says Sullivan, with whom Loesser fell in love when she sang the female lead in Most Happy Fella, "it was lunchtime...
...many reports he had to turn out. "This is a very memo-driven company," he observed. Columbia graduate student Sallie Binnie, who regularly put in 11-hour days in our business office, did not expect the pace to be quite so hectic. "I kept waiting for that three-martini lunch," she says. "But it never showed...