词条 | Maggie Lettvin |
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| name = Maggie B. Lettvin | birth_date = March 15, 1927 | birth_place = Philadelphia, PA | occupation = writer and promoter of health and exercise | language = English | nationality = American | subject = Health }} Margaret B. Lettvin is an American writer and promoter of exercise and health.[1] She was known in the Boston area in the 1970s for a PBS television show on WGBH-TV called Maggie and The Beautiful Machine,[2] and a book based on the show. After a serious car accident, she developed a set of exercises for back pain, which became Maggie's Back Book ({{ISBN|0395251478}}). She is the widow of MIT Professor Emeritus Jerome Lettvin, with whom she served as houseparent of the MIT Bexley dorm.[3] They had three children: David, Ruth, and Jonathan. Books
References1. ^{{cite journal| journal = Sports Illustrated| url = http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1089885/5/index.htm | title = Beating Their Brains Out| author = John Underwood| date = May 26, 1975| quote = In the wrestling and fencing rooms, faculty and students submitted themselves to Maggie Lettvin for overhauls. Maggie is svelte, black-haired and 48, "The Beautiful Machine" of Boston educational television. Her roly-poly husband is an MIT biology and electrical engineering professor.| accessdate = 24 May 2011}} 2. ^{{cite web| url=http://wgbhalumni.org/2000/01/01/wgbh-programs-to-2000/ |title=WGBH Program list — to 2000 |publisher=WGBHalumni.org |accessdate=2011-05-24}} 3. ^{{ cite news | last=Burtoff | first=Barbara | date=December 27, 1978 | title=Just a Simple Brunch for 120 College Men | publisher=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/27/archives/just-a-simple-brunch-for-120-college-men.html | access-date=May 23, 2017}} External links
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