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...role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train for her to play with. Producer Mervyn LeRoy took the script of Quo Vadis? to the Vatican and had no trouble getting Pope Pius XII to bless...
...Francisco and New York harbor AIDS antibodies. As a result, they will register positive on the new screening tests, though probably less than 10% will develop AIDS. "We don't know what to tell people who are positive," admits San Francisco Public Health Director Mervyn Silverman. "It might lead people to conclude wrongly that they are doomed...
Burgess's most personal predilections come into play not only with the lopsided Englishness of his choices but with his embrace of verbally experimental books (Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, John Earth's Giles Goat-Boy) and of sci-fi or futuristic visions (Kingsley Amis' The Anti-Death League, Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence). His list is as striking for what it leaves out as for what it includes. Every reader will have his favorite omissions-after all, that is half the fun of literary parlor games like this-but just to name five...
...flying MacDonald, accompanied by a doctor and two social workers, to San Francisco aboard a chartered air ambulance. But when he arrived, MacDonald was so weak that he had to be admitted to San Francisco General Hospital. Mayor Dianne Feinstein charged that the transfer was "outrageous and inhumane," and Mervyn Silverman, the city's public health director, declared that the episode was "a dump of the worst kind" and accused Florida of "abandoning" an AIDS patient...
...theory, a desktop computer could be a labor-and time-saving boon to executives with a voracious need for information about the state of their businesses. But some managers complain that computers are simply too hard to use. Mervyn Weich, 44, senior vice president of Zayre Corp., a retailing chain, says sitting in front of a terminal and trying to extract information is unacceptably difficult and time consuming. "If I could talk to the computer as easily as I talk to my administrative assistant, yes, I'd use it," he explains. "But it's a lot of work...