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...actor, best known for playing the lead in 1935's The New Adventures of Tarzan; in Los Angeles. Brix was not the most famous Tarzan--an injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce...
...been almost nil. You might know that F. Murray Abraham or Danny Thomas had Middle Eastern ancestry, but it was trivia, like knowing that Dan Aykroyd was Canadian. There was no figure whose ethnicity deeply informed his or her work--no Arab-American Dick Gregory or Iranian-American Lenny Bruce...
...hope that our results will give people some understanding as to why limiting television time makes sense,” Miller said. “Hopefully, [the study] allows for parents to understand as well, not just clinicians and policy makers.” Professor of Medicine Bruce Ryan Bistrian, who is also chief of clinical nutrition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, noted the difficulty of isolating a specific cause for the obesity epidemic. “Although [the study] would suggest very strongly that the children are eating more and eating the wrong kinds of foods, they?...
...AWARDED. Bruce Crandall, 74, retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel whose rescue of 70 wounded during the Battle at Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam was depicted in the 2002 film We Were Soldiers; the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor; in a White House ceremony in which President George W. Bush hailed him as a hero; in Washington. Over a 14-hour period on Nov. 14, 1965, he piloted 22 flights, mostly under enemy fire, saying later that leaving the scene was "never a consideration ... They were my people down there, and they trusted in me to come...
...DIED. Bruce Metzger, 93, eminent New Testament scholar who oversaw the 1989 publication of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the touchstone for those on the liberal side of the biblical-text wars; in Princeton, N.J. A graceful linguist and world authority on translating the New Testament from the original Greek, he aimed to create a more modern, accessible text. Among its revisions: gender-neutral language, the elimination of thees and thous, and syntactical shifts to avoid confusion in meaning. A sentence that Metzger's team edited as "Once I received a stoning," for example, had previously read...