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Genex Corp. of Rockville, Md., another fast-rising entry in the field, was founded three years ago by Molecular Biologist Leslie Glick and another professional raiser of venture capital, Robert Johnston. Though the company is secretive about its projects, Bristol-Myers revealed that Genex is working for it on the production of interferon...
...father-and-son O'Neill act beaming and winking on his left. Carter lived up to his reviews as a first-rate soap-box campaigner as he performed on a back street in the North End; and minutes later and light years away, appeared at an elite fund-raiser before the dukes and barons of Boston Democratic politics...
...Democrats recognize the obstacles that lie in their way. Anderson's hard-core support is staunchly liberal and thus draws from Carter. So far at any rate, it has scarcely budged. Says a top Anderson fund raiser in Los Angeles: "We'd rather throw our vote away than give it to Carter." Ted Kennedy's supporters are lukewarm about working for Carter. Says one, emotionally: "We can't find it in our hearts to campaign for this guy. Our memories aren't that short." Nor is Jerry Brown, the enigmatic Democratic Governor, embracing Carter. Confides...
When Ted Kennedy wanted a hot warmup act for his appearance at a pre-convention fund raiser, he whistled for Lauren Bacall. He got fireworks. As host of "Broadway for Kennedy" at the Shubert Theater, Bacall sauntered onstage to cheers and let loose some sizzlers: "They tell us that the convention is all sewed up, but these are the same people who told us that Gerald Ford would be Ronald Reagan's Vice President and that Chrysler stock is a good buy. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that should be sewed up is Brother...
...John were all televisibly on the scene. But where, wondered fans of NBC's Saturday Night Live, was that mistress of digression, Rosanne Rosanna-Dana? "Rosanne won't be covering the convention this year, perhaps in '84," said Gilda Radner at a fund raiser for Manhattan Democratic Congressional Candidate Mark Green. As soon as she popped out of the elevator atop the Empire State Building, she was set upon by a swarm of would-be Woodsteins under age 14 reporting for Children's Express. Well, as Rosanne might have known, it's always something...