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...hear the one about the half-Armenian woman in Bombay, with a weakness for baklava, who was introduced by her lover, the procuress, to a gigolo from the Seychelles known as Raper George? When her husband -- a 7-ft., entirely bald Azerbaijani all-in wrestler with gold-capped teeth -- heard about how his wife was spending her lazy afternoons, he hurried over to the small hotel where she was finding her pleasure...
...Raper was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, serving as Secretary from 1962 to 1964. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1964. Raper also served as president of the Mycological Society of America...
During World War II, Raper participated in the Manhattan project to study the biological effects of atomic radiation...
...time of his death, Raper was planning to spend a semester's sabbatical in the Netherlands to develop new techniques in cell culture and to further his botanical research...
...Raper was a resident of Lexington, and is survived by his wife, Carlene Allen; their children, Jonathan and Linda and a son, William, from a previous marriage; and four brothers and a sister...