Word: bethesda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many doctors believe that the common cold is caused by a virus. Dr. Leon T. Atlas of the U.S. Public Health Service has been so sure of it that since 1947 he has been growing a sub-microscopic bug that seemed to be the guilty party. At Bethesda, Md. he nurtured his virus first in the noses of willing victims, then in hen's eggs. The strain, known as MRI, be came the world's No. 1 biological curiosity...
...Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, Cordell Hull had "no special festivities" (but a flock of telegrams from the world's great) on his 78th birthday, his first outside Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital in four years...
...Thrace-born Alexander Symeonidis wanted to study art. When his family went broke, he studied medicine instead, because it promised to pay more. A former professor of pathology at the University of Athens, and now a pathologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., he gets artistic satisfaction in turning out carefully stained slides, which he excitedly refers to as "beautiful...
Died. W. (for William) A. (for Alexander) Julian, 78, $10,330-a-year Treasurer of the United States, custodian of some $251 billion, whose signature appears on all U.S. folding money issued since he was appointed in 1933; in an automobile accident; in Bethesda...
Died. James Vincent Forrestal, 57, onetime Secretary of the Navy (1944-47) and the nation's first Secretary of Defense (1947-49); by jumping from a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...