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...Grille back, the socialization aspect,” Kirshner said. “I’m hoping that the Grille guys will get going on this. I am encouraging them.” The “Grille guys,” Weston W. Quasha ’06 and David G. Clark ’07, who officially became Quincy’s Grille managers this fall, are primarily responsible for coming up with creative and cost-effective alternatives. “Right now we’re trying to figure out exactly what kind of products...
...added benefits.“There is a strong case, therefore, for a renewed international commitment to vaccination,” the study, which was published in World Economics, says.Authors David E. Bloom, Gamble professor of economics and demography, David Canning, professor of economics and international health and Marc Weston of River Path Associates in the United Kingdom, found that previous studies on the subject of immunization focused primarily on the benefits to physical health but failed to quantify the programs’ economic impact. “The long-term productivity effects of immunization that we estimate...
DIED. EVAN HUNTER, 78, author who, under the pen name Ed McBain, defined the genre of the gritty, graphic police procedural novel; of cancer of the larynx; in Weston, Conn. Under his real name, he wrote the acclaimed 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but none approached the popularity of his 87th Precinct series, which, beginning with 1956's Cop Hater, followed the personal and professional lives of a team of utterly human cops solving brutal crimes and paved the way for countless crime writers and hit TV shows like Hill Street...
...late '20s, Adams had become a pivotal figure in the rescue of photography from the genteel posturing of pictorialism, with its perfumed moods and swampy prints. Like-minded photographers such as Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham joined him to found f/64, the now legendary group that promoted the principles of sharp focus and pure, powerful form. On sunrise camera treks through Death Valley or the Canyon de Chelly, he showed that stony facts could engender the deepest feelings...
...narrative continually reveals, Adams possessed a rare talent for winning the friendship of brilliant but difficult men and women, including Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe. Perhaps it was because he so seldom raised his voice. The memoir boils over only once, on the subject of the Reagan Administration's environmental policies, which spurred his worst fears about human predators nibbling at the land...