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...bookworm (he often has to look up the spelling of medical trade terms) and not much of a laboratory researcher. Dr. Johansen never gave up hope that somebody, somewhere, would find a drug to cure leprosy. He worked conscientiously with the sulfas. Then, at the end of World War II, came the sulfones, such as Diasone, Promacetin and sulphetrorie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope at Carville | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...narrator, who becomes Zorba's boss and foil, is a 35-year-old scholar, tired, bookworm-eaten, a 20th century Hamlet. Sensing that he ought to get away from his study for a while, he eases off on his definitive life of Buddha and tries to run a lignite mine. Zorba, the would-be cook, becomes his chief engineer. And through Zorba, the scholar learns to see the world fresh each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Force | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...stage, Russell found that his new guise could be a show-stopper too. In a bemused, horn-rimmed way, Russell has become something of a matinee idol, has done for the morale of the spectacle-wearing bookworm what Ezio Pinza did for the middle-aged man. His television appearances have brought him fan mail from all over the country. Grateful mothers often write to thank him for helping reconcile their teen-age sons to glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Horn-Rimmed Harvey | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Prudence and bookworm Philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Gallop Alone | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...fourth place, I deeply resent the headline: "Bookworm? No--Tapeworm! I am a sweet-tempered man, but I cannot bear in silence the totally unfounded charge of being a tapeworm. It is monstrous. T. B. Roos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Not Tapeworm | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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