|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Larry King
Broadcasters' Hall of Fame
When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why. I was magically attuned to it. I would listen to these voices, and then as I got a little older -- and just a little older, 7 or 8 -- I would imagine myself doing what they were doing. I would actually stand up, sit down, I'd go to the mirror, and I would say, "The Romance of Helen Trent," as if I were the announcer. Then I would go to baseball games and I'd roll up the score card, and I'd sit up in the back row, and all my friends would look up at me, and I'd broadcast the game to myself. I fantasized being a broadcaster.
View Interview with Larry King
View Biography of Larry King
View Profile of Larry King
View Photo Gallery of Larry King
|
|
|
Larry King
Broadcasters' Hall of Fame
Herbie, my best friend, his father, Morris, used to walk with me down the street. I'd be 18 years old, just out of high school. All the other kids were going to college, and I was working at the United Parcel Service. And I was always telling everyone, "I want to be a broadcaster." And he would walk with me down the street and put his arms around me and would actually say, "What, are you nuts? What, are you a pipe dreamer? What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey? You're not going to be Arthur Godfrey. Get a job with a future!"
View Interview with Larry King
View Biography of Larry King
View Profile of Larry King
View Photo Gallery of Larry King
|
|
|
Willem Kolff
Pioneer of Artificial Organs
My father was director of a sanatorium for pulmonary tuberculosis, and at that time there were no antibiotics, tuberculosis was a terrible disease. And, he and I would walk in the woods around that sanatorium and he would discuss his worries about his patients. And from him, I certainly inherited this extreme concern about the well-being of patients. I've seen him very happy when he succeeded after months and months of rest and other things to have these people go home cured. I've also seen him crying and desperate after trying for a long time and a patient did not get well, and went home to die.
View Interview with Willem Kolff
View Biography of Willem Kolff
View Profile of Willem Kolff
View Photo Gallery of Willem Kolff
|
|
|
Willem Kolff
Pioneer of Artificial Organs
When I was this young assistant at the University of Groningen my responsibility was for four beds, or rather the patients in four beds. That was all I had to do. And, one of these patients was a young man, 22 years old, who slowly and miserably died from renal failure. He became blind, he vomited, and it was a miserable death. And I, as a very, very young physician, had to tell his mother, in a black dress and a little white cap like the farmers have, that her only son was going to die. I couldn't do a damn thing about it. So, I began to think, "If I could just every day remove as much urea as this boy creates, which is about 20 grams, then the boy could live." Well, he died, but I began to work on that.
View Interview with Willem Kolff
View Biography of Willem Kolff
View Profile of Willem Kolff
View Photo Gallery of Willem Kolff
|
|
|
Henry Kravis
Financier and Investor
Today, we have a portfolio of some 15 or 16 companies. We have hundreds of thousands of employees in these different companies, with about 40 billion dollars in revenue. They are counting on us. These people's livelihood depends, in part, upon decisions that we make. I don't want to let those people down. I want to do what I hope is the right thing. Yes, there is some pain going through it. Yes there is some terminations early on, but in the long run, if we can make a company more competitive, and leaner, and more profitable, they eventually are going to hire more people, because they are going to grow. And they are going to be able to make acquisitions, down the road, sensible acquisitions.
View Interview with Henry Kravis
View Biography of Henry Kravis
View Profile of Henry Kravis
View Photo Gallery of Henry Kravis
|
| |
|
