Monday, October 23, 2006
Most of us - Baby Boomers at least - remember Jane Wyatt from the television series Father Knows Best. In that series, she played Margaret Anderson, the matriarch of the Anderson family, who solved crises weekly during 207 episodes of that series. However, we Star Trek fans know her as Amanda... Sign in to see full entry.
Christopher Glenn
Cristopher Glenn, age 68, died last week of liver cancer. He had two major claims to fame. During the 1970s and 1980s, he anchored the children's news program called In The News, a small feature which aired on CBS in between children's programs on Saturday mornings. Most readers of this blog will... Sign in to see full entry.
The recipient of the first baboon bone-marrow transplant
I did not name the patient for privacy's sake (the man deserves at least some privacy in eternity), but this man got a bone-marrow transplant in 1995, in the hope that this experimental procedure would help alleviate the effects of the AIDS virus in his system. The bone marrow must have worked... Sign in to see full entry.