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While the government considers how to best alter the indirect cost regulations, Scott, Fields and R. John Collier, Presley professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, are concerned that the government has already changed the "ground rules" with respect to indirect costs--that the government is not maintaining "its side of the bargain...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: The GAO Directs Its Attention to Indirect Costs | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...probably as good an explanation as any for the program's long-running success. A Manhattan-born sportswriter turned show-biz columnist for the New York Daily News, Sullivan had a reporter's instinct for what was hot, and he outhustled rivals to showcase new talent, notably Elvis Presley and the Beatles. And not just in pop. Sullivan proudly treated his audiences to classical excellence in the personae of opera diva Joan Sutherland and ballet stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. He encouraged black artists at a time when TV offered them few opportunities. Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, a R-r-really Big Shew | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

Despite some colleagues' concerns, Leon Eisenberg, Presley professor of social medicine, says indirect costs are necessary for research...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Coming Down on the Medical School | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

Executors of the King's estate have licensed the sale of a new Presley spray cologne that will retail at $19.50. No, it doesn't smell like a sweaty towel or a blue suede shoe; the scent is described as a "contemporary, masculine blend of woods, herbs and amber." Read: a good-ole-boy's Old Spice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart Marketing Rhinestone Belt | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...least all those folks called him by his name. For Mark Childress, Elvis is Leroy Kirby. The name is a down-home rendering of the French for Presley's nickname, "the King," but that's about the extent of the trouble taken to adjust the facts for fictional purposes. Tender is meant to be a biographical novel, but it reads more like an overextended vamp on a folk hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hound Dog TENDER by Mark Childress Harmony; 566 pages; $19.95 | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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