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...life itself be tarnished!" he shouted. "Don't say he died as a result of a homicidal rage, of some sordid affair. Restore the dignity of Dr. Tarnower, who himself died trying to save Jean Harris." He ended his impassioned plea by quoting a poem of Edna St. Vincent Millay: "I miss him in the weeping of the rain...
...athletic"; his own ambition, he wrote presciently in his yearbook, was "to become a successful businessman." He also developed a taste for science. Encouraged by his hard-driving high school coach, who doubled as a science and math instructor, he went on to pursue those subjects at nearby St. Vincent College, a demanding Benedictine school. A few summers of digging ditches and working in a local Westinghouse transformer plant helped convince him that "I had better start paying attention to what people are saying in class...
...while Boyer thought of becoming a doctor, but after assisting at an autopsy he decided he did not have the stomach for such work. His interest in genetics was awakened almost accidentally when he was asked one day at St. Vincent to deliver a class report on DNA, which had only recently been firmly established as the molecule that forms genes. Says Boyer: "I got hooked. There was something very beautiful about it. It explained a lot of things." After earning a Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of Pittsburgh, he did postdoctoral studies at Yale, becoming so immersed...
PENN (83)--Paul Little 2-1-5: Angelo Reynolds 9-1-19; Brad Wynn 0-0-0; Vincent Rose 1-3-5; Fran McCaffery 0-1-1; Avery Rawllngs 2-1-5; David Lardner 5-0-10; Kenneth Hall 0-6-6; Michael Brown 4-7-15; George Noon 4-9-17. Totals...
...five seminal years of this style (1886-91) are the subject of "Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism," an exhibition on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto until March 22, when it moves to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh in Amsterdam. (It will not come to the U.S.) The exhibition includes a large group of major paintings by Van Gogh, mostly from his time in Aries and St.Rémy. They are backed up with an extraordinary selection of some 30 Gauguins and many remarkable paintings by the "disciples"-including Bernard, who turns out, like...