Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unfair surprise," sputtered stooped, balding Abraham Isserman, and "Outside the scope of the indictment." Pint-sized Harry Sacher barked similar objections. Judge Harold Medina, bitingly suave, then and later gave short shrift to their objections...
...Observation Was ..." No point was too small for the defense to seize upon. Two Marxist books, entered as evidence, were shown to the jurors, and they thumbed through them. Up popped bald, stooped Lawyer Abraham Isserman to protest: "I would like to have the record note that the examination of the exhibits occupied a period of time of about ten minutes and in that time the jurors did not read the documents...
...jury was composed of Corcoran Director Hermann Warner Williams Jr. and three painters: abstractionist Abraham Rattner, landscape and genre painter Paul Sample, and Pepsi-Cola Prizewinner Mitchell Jamieson (TIME, Oct. 4). Together they had spent a day in Manhattan and another in Washington, rejected close to 1,000 pictures (including some by top-notch artists) at each stop. What, Miss Genauer wanted to know, had been their basis of judgment...
Well, said Painter Sample, it was "both a consideration of the painter's intentions and his realization of these intentions." Abraham Rattner enlarged on Sample's statement by saying that a work that was exceedingly well painted might very well be omitted if the jury felt that it was not genuinely eloquent or expressive, or if the technique chosen did not appear to have been honestly felt or arrived at by the artist...
People are always asking greying Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, 60, how he discovered the wonder drug streptomycin in 1943. Modest Dr. Waksman (rhymes with phlox-man) has a stock answer which makes it sound pretty simple. He merely examined about 10,000 cultures, he explains. Only 1,000 would kill bacteria in preliminary tests; only 100 looked promising in later tests; only ten were isolated and described; one of the ten proved to be streptomycin. It just happened that streptomycin was the first effective drug that doctors had ever found to fight tuberculosis...