Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Rutgers University needed to save some money during the war winter of 1941-42, a budget official had a bright idea: Why not fire Selman Waksman, an obscure Ukrainian-born microbiologist who was getting $4,620 a year for "playing around with microbes in the soil?" That sort of fun & games, the moneyman pointed out, had never really paid...
What Is Life? Selman Abraham Waksman, famed U.S. expert at stirring up civil war among the bugs, was born in 1888 in the little Ukrainian village of Priluka, go miles from Kiev. His father Jacob spent most of his time making copper kitchenware in the nearby town of Vinnitsa, and young Selman was brought up almost entirely by his mother Fradia...
...Born. To Clifford Stanton Heinz II, 30, an heir to the Pittsburgh food-packing fortune founded by his grandfather, the late H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz, and Second Wife Virginia Howard Heinz, thirtyish: their second child, first daughter (he has a son by his first marriage); in Los Angeles. Name: Sharon Louise. Weight...
Died. Ginette Neveu, 30, brilliant Paris-born violinist who was bravoed by critics after her Manhattan appearance two years ago; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Died. Marcel Cerdan, 33, Algerian-born French boxer, former (1948-49) middleweight champion of the world; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS...