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...Sidney Farber, who founded the cancer institute in 1942, treated Mayer during his battle with leukemia, until Mayer's death in 1947. Farber, a Harvard pathologist and physician, was the first doctor to use chemotherapy successfully against childhood leukemia...
John Landis, who directed "The Blues Brothers" and "Animal House," is scheduled to appear next Saturday at the Pudding, said David Lane Seltzer '88, who helped organize Avildsen's visit. Seltzer said future guests will include "Ghostbusters" star Harold Ramis and Sidney Lumet, director of "Out of Africa...
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This was about as much personal information as Humorist Sidney Joseph Perelman ever intended to disclose. But his natural reticence went with him when he died at the age of 75 in 1979. Dorothy Herrmann, author of a previous book about American wits, With Malice Toward All, begins by calling her subject "brilliant" and ends by labeling his work "sublime." Between these terminals she presents a clothbound gossip column featuring a morose and promiscuous figure who never came to terms with his beginnings...
Chicago Psychiatrist Sidney Weissman derisively calls it "the old Sears catalog" of psychological tests. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is indeed one of the oldest, longest and most cumbersome tests in use today. Millions of people in at least 46 countries, from psychotics to normal job seekers to Soviet cosmonauts, have puzzled their way through its seemingly endless array of odd and eerie statements (samples: "Much of the time my head seems to hurt all over"; "My soul sometimes leaves my body"; "In walking, I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"). Now, at age 44, the archetypal test...