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According to Barney Oldfield '79 who is responsible for club publications, about 200 people wrote in to suggest new names for the newsletter before the club settled on "Today@hcny...
...ability to concentrate on the task in front of him, and a lot of experience at removing tumors. But plenty of surgeons can claim these. It is something else entirely that distinguishes Black from most of his colleagues: an absolutely unshakable devotion to a single task. Says Dr. Edward Oldfield, chief of surgical neurology at the National Institutes of Health: "This is the unique feature of his career--the way he is using rather striking advances in basic science in the application of new treatments." Keith Black is fighting an all-fronts war against brain cancer...
Seventy years ago, race-car drivers like the legendary Barney Oldfield used a simple method to bring their cars to the track: they drove them there. No more. Today's million-dollar race cars are hauled around in souped-up trailers equipped with elevator platforms for loading, fully outfitted machine shops, wood-paneled meeting rooms, stereos and videocassette recorders. Says former racer Bruce Canepa: "Race-car trailers are an art form in themselves...
...Maurice Oldfield, the late chief of MI6, Britain's supersecret intelligence service, was a scholarly, chubby and unprepossessing bachelor. He enjoyed an impeccable reputation, and was said to be the prototype for Novelist John le Carre's spy master, George Smiley. But unlike Smiley, Oldfield had a dark secret that has posthumously cast a shadow over his career...
Author Chapman Pincher charges in a new book, Traitors: The Labyrinth of Treason, that Oldfield was a homosexual. Last week Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirmed that the spy chief had admitted to her before his death in 1981 "that he had from time to time engaged in homosexual activities." Thatcher stressed that "there was no reason whatsoever to suggest that security had ever been compromised...