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Should Johnson offer him the appointment, Harris said, he would take it and turn down an offer from the University of California at La Jolla. Harris was scheduled to leave Harvard this February to take over as chairman of the department of economics at the La Jolla campus...
...Scholander's interest in the subject and the answer he found was his experimental approach. He took seals to his laboratory at the University of Oslo, strapped them to boards and dunked them in a bathtub, to simulate diving. Now at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif., he works with Dr. Robert W. Eisner, a physiologist who trains seals to simulate diving by voluntarily holding their own noses under a few inches of water...
...great coloratura roles (Rosina, Lucia, Lakmé) with both the Metropolitan and Chicago Operas earning up to $15,000 a performance while on tour, retired in the 1930s to California but continued through her many recordings to haunt opera buffs and reigning coloraturas alike; of emphysema; in La Jolla, Calif...
Harris, who was unavailable for comment last night, has been scheduled to become the chairman of the Economics department at the University of California's La Jolla campus this February, but he has apparently abandoned these plans in favor of the government post...
...Tracy Wynn, 18, belongs with his brother Ned, 22, to the third generation of stage-struck Wynns (preceded by Father Keenan and Grandfather Ed). Tracy has his first stage role this summer (in San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse dramatization of Tom Sawyer), but he never had much doubt about his career. When his interest occasionally wandered from the theater, he recalls, his mother would "remind me that we were a theatrical family and that that's where I ought...