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Field believes that the young relationship in the early '40s was uneasy because both writers were at awkward stages in their careers. Nabokov's European reputation had yet to transplant itself to America. Wilson the literary journalist was just becoming Wilson the critic and man of letters. Furthermore, says Field, Wilson often chose to play the brooding Russian, while Nabokov played the easygoing American. The following conversation is reported to have taken place in 1942 - Wilson: "Do you believe in God?" Nabokov: "Do you?" Wilson: "What a strange question!" According to Field, the friendship ended in 1954, when...
Died. Betty Anick, 57, the world's longest-surviving heart-transplant patient; of an apparent heart attack; in Nokomis, Fla. Anick received the heart of a 30-year-old man in a four-hour operation in October 1968. Since then, she had devoted much of her time to visiting heart-surgery patients and raising funds for heart research...
Harried by hair loss? If you are a healthy male, there is really no cure for a balding pate, except a toupee or a hair transplant. Caught a cold? Forget about those nostrums plugged on TV, unless you want to toss your money away. Stymied by a sex problem? Your trouble is probably psychological, because the bedroom is only a microcosm of the outside world's stresses and strains...
Another comer is Cal Vainstein, 46, also a New York transplant, whose New Hero line features drawstring pants, caftans and other casual clothes, like a $47 hot-pink jumpsuit with harem pants and a neckline plunging to the waist. New Hero expects to earn more than $2 million this year...
...that your readers may be properly and fairly informed regarding the recombinant DNA (gene transplant) research controversy, it is important that your newspaper make available to them the following pertinent information...