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3 unusual facts about Donald D. Lorenzen


Donald D. Lorenzen

In 1969 Councilman Lorenzen asked the city's Library Commission to take copies of the avant-garde Evergreen Review magazine off the open shelves of the public library because one of his constituents had read an issue and found "a very dirty story" in it.

He beat Joy Picus in 1973 in a tight election that demanded a recount; the vote was 27,575 for Lorenzen and 27,027 for Picus.

University of Jamestown

Donald D. Lorenzen (1920–80), Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1969–77


Don Patterson

Donald D. Patterson (1911–?), businessman and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada

Donald D. Chamberlin

In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich.

Michael Heidelberger

Meltzer relented, and sent him on to meet with the Institute's chemists, Phoebus A. T. Levene, Donald D. Van Slyke, and Walter A. Jacobs, whom Heidelberger found assembled over tea.

Ornithidium donaldeedodii

The "new" orchid, which had been mislabeled as Maxillaria croceorubens since the 1990s, was named after orchidologist Donald D. Dod (1912–2008), who collected the specimen in the 1980s in Haiti.

Personality systematics

Family systems therapy received an important boost in the mid-1950s through the work of anthropologist Gregory Bateson and colleagues – Jay Haley, Donald D. Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry, and later, Virginia Satir, Paul Watzlawick and others – at Palo Alto in the US, who introduced ideas from cybernetics and general systems theory into social psychology and psychotherapy, focusing in particular on the role of communication.

Presolar grains

In the mid-1970s, Donald D. Clayton predicted that unusual isotopic compositions would be found within thermally condensed grains produced during mass loss from stars of differing types, and argued that such grains exist throughout the interstellar medium.

Rethinking Religion in India

Contributors are S.N. Balagangadhara, Sarah Claerhout, Jakob De Roover, Timothy Fitzgerald, Richard King, David N. Lorenzen, Geoffrey A. Oddie, Laurie L. Patton, Sharada Sugirtharajah, and John Zavos.


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