Word: carlson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Similar in tone is last week's angry Hearst: Lord of San Simeon** by Oliver Carlson & Ernest Sutherland Bates. Mr. Carlson, a University of Chicago researcher, collaborated last year with Mr. Bates, onetime literary editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, on five articles about Mr. Hearst which appeared in the Leftist magazine Common Sense. The series gave Common Sense's circulation such a boost that Authors Carlson & Bates sensed they had a good thing, expanded their journalistic findings into a 332-page book...
...elephant with widely variant results, the four biographers bring in antipodal reports on their huge subject. Following William Randolph Hearst from his abbreviated career at Harvard, through his early publishing ventures in California, his entry into New York, his pre-War triumphs and present stormy twilight. Authors Lundberg, Carlson & Bates liberally plaster Publisher Hearst with controversial tar, while Mrs. Older is equally generous in coating her hero with sympathetic whitewash. Some contrasting findings on the character & career of Mr. Hearst...
...According to the adolescent philosophy which Willie Hearst was never to outgrow," Carlson & Bates report, "professors were the natural enemies of the students and the natural enemies of man. So in the Christmas season of 1885 he determined to put them in their place in a right regal manner. To each of his instructors he sent, elaborately done up as a Christmas gift, a large chamber pot with the recipient's name ornamentally inscribed in the bottom. The perpetrator of the lordly jest was easily discovered, and Willie Hearst's connection with Harvard ended forever...
When neat Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson of Manhattan got up to talk about palsies caused by rough handling during birth the physicians enthusiastically rose and cheered him. Injured in that way. Dr Carlson was once obliged to wear boots oversized pants and slipover sweaters be cause his unruly hands could not lace am button his clothes. People treated him a an idiotic cripple. Eventually his innate wit and grit took command of his muscles He went to Princeton, to Yale, opened clinic and two private schools for treatment of the defect (TIME, May 30, 1932) The basis of treatment...
...this mightily annoyed many an orthodox scientist, particularly Dr. Anton Julius Carlson, University of Chicago physiologist in whose laboratory Dr. Carrel did much of the experimenting which led to his Nobel Prize. Snorted Dr. Carlson: "Neither science nor modern medicine...