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...Buck Zuckerman, a Wall Streeter married to the actress Ruth Taylor (she played Lorelei Lee in the 1928 film of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), would go downtown to work each morning, peddle stocks until mid-afternoon, come home and take a nap - so he could be fresh for an evening's prowl of the city's top night spots; his son still has a 1937 album of photos from El Morocco. Phyllis Adams, a pert swank Manhattan deb, has her own memory book of nightclub propositions from elegant gents, including Errol Flynn. Brooklyn's Davie Lerner had never been inside...
...Pediatrics Department Chair and Boston University Medical School Professor Barry Zuckerman said that “innovation” and the usefulness of the services distinguished Project HEALTH volunteers as “partners, not candy-stripers...
When some of them took the bait, Roth went even further. Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator of The Ghost Writer (1979), seems identical to Roth in everything from his vocation (writer) and faith (Jewish) to his Newark childhood. (Tarnapol at least grew up in the Bronx.) What is more, Zuckerman is facing the same dilemma that Roth did, with considerable attendant publicity early in his career; he has been accused of writing a story involving misbehaving Jews that, other Jews claim, will confirm anti-Semitic prejudices in Gentile readers...
...crossover acts like Ellis' tend to attract a particular amount of scorn. But some historians believe that Ellis' stumble could serve as a valuable lesson to his public. "Readers have to understand that whatever objective claims historians may make, they are invested in the things they write," says Michael Zuckerman, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "History can't just be the production of the historian. It has to be the collaboration of a skeptical historian and certainly a skeptical reader...
...must also determine the causes of this phenomenon. Common sense tells us that the environment is a likely suspect. Public-health officials should be examining whether early puberty is found more in locations where children are exposed to significant levels of chemicals that could cause this trend. DIANA ZUCKERMAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR National Center for Policy Research for Women and Families Washington...