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Malignant Clusters. While most doctors believe that surgery is essential, there are those who insist that complete amputation is not necessary. Dr. Vera Peters of Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital advocates a simple procedure called "lumpectomy," in which only the cancerous lump is removed. She says her research shows that in cancers that have not spread to the lymph nodes, lumpectomy is just as effective as the more radical operations and far less damaging psychologically. (The problem is how to determine that the lymph nodes are uninvolved; most doctors feel that the only sure way to tell...
Looking backward, Anya is determined to make sense of time's frightening discontinuity. To establish a solid starting point, she rebuilds almost brick by brick the Savikin family's opulent apartment in Vilno. Here is her room, gaudy with color; here is the austere chamber of Sister Vera, who thinks only of her piano; here is Zoshia, the youngest maid, skating about with a brush on each foot, polishing the parquetry...
Born. To Seiji Ozawa, 38, kinetic conductor of the Boston and San Francisco symphonies, and Vera Ozawa, 29, former Tokyo fashion model: their first son, second child; in San Francisco...
...Merle Miller's current bestseller Plain Speaking is Margaret Truman Daniel. Annoyed by Miller's publication of his conversations with her father, the late President Harry Truman, taped in 1961-62, Margaret has ignored the complimentary copy sent her by the publishers. Talking to Knight Newspapers Columnist Vera Glaser last week, Margaret said: "I don't like people riding my coattails," a reference to her own bestseller Harry S. Truman, which appeared in 1972. Her main objection: "Dad wrote Plain Speaking, not Miller. This man has just taken tapes and strung them together, and we all know...
...dark gray stone skyscraper (known to employees as the Black Rock); he still finds time for tennis and doodling on an unfinished violin concerto, still entertains such friends as the Leonard Bernsteins, Richard Rodgerses and Dick Cavetts. He frequently gets away with his wife of 27 years, Ballerina Vera Zorina, for long weekends at their second home in Santa...