Word: arrowsmith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sidney Coe Howard, 48, topflight U. S. playwright (The Silver Cord, Alien Corn, Yellow Jack), cinemadapter (Bull Dog Drummond, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), son-in-law of Conductor Walter Damrosch; when a tractor he was cranking lurched forward, pinned and crushed him against a garage wall; on his 700-acre farm near Tyringham, Mass. Born in Oakland, Calif, (where three brothers still live), Sidney Howard used to say that he "grew up in a mess of books . . . fumbled around for some kind of artistic expression." His fumbling took him to the University of California (where he wrote plays), to George Pierce...
...Arrowsmith, his famed novel about the medical profession, Yaleman Sinclair Lewis pilloried pretentious scientists by describing an imaginary and phony temple of science called McGurk Institute on Manhattan's Cedar Street. Arrowsmith was published before the founding of Yale University's Institute of Human Relations, but by a luckless coincidence Yale's Institute in New Haven also stands on a Cedar Street. Yale's Institute has many critics who make the most of that coincidence...
Helen Hayes, Orson Welles (Fri. 9:00 p. m. CBS) in Campbell Soup's version of Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith...
...Herelle prematurely decided that he had a cure for all bacterial diseases, and phage became a sensation. (The young doctor in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith was a phage researcher.) More than 50 different phages were found, and some of them were photographed by ultraviolet light in ultra-microscopes, revealing diameters of two to 90-billionths of a metre. They were tried out as cures for cholera, dysentery, blood poisoning, boils and other diseases, but on the whole proved disappointing. Some bacteria seemed to acquire an immunity to their phages. Some phages worked well in test tubes, failed in human bodies...
Woolly-headed Fatty Pfaff, in Arrowsmith, set out for his medical examination with a set of notes in his pocket, not to peek at but in the hope that their contents might soak through his skin. Last week was in many a U. S. college the week of midyear examinations and woolly-headed students were glad to get any kind of last-minute cramming advice...