Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slyke has organized specialists in each field into study councils to make recommendations. Most of the time, Van Slyke and his advisers were right in their choice of projects to back, notably research with anti-TB drugs, the momentous blood-fractionation work of Harvard's late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Sept. 12, 1953), various artificial heart, lung and kidney machines, basic studies seeking better understanding and treatment of heart disease. Ironically, Dr. Van Slyke could not attend last week's Lasker Awards luncheon in Manhattan. The sometime director (1948-52) of the National Heart Institute was at home...
About the only visitors who have received a less than hearty welcome were Junketers Cohn & Schine, who showed up in 1953 on a tour for the late Senator McCarthy, to sniff the stacks for anti-Americanism. Politely, Director Dr. Ian Forbes Fraser explained that his library was private, showed the pair the door. On Fraser's shelves are volumes to turn any McCarthyite red. When the State Department nervously banned the fictional biography Citizen Tom Paine, by the then Redolent Howard Fast, from its overseas informational libraries, Fraser ordered six extra copies to handle the requests of curious Frenchmen...
...pussyfooting about the nymphomania of the heroine, who settles for all men in lieu of Jake whom she loves; as man-crazy Lady Ashley (Brett), Ava Gardner turns in the most realistic performance of her career. The other major characters also rise to true book size. As Robert Cohn, the unwanted, brooding Jew, Mel Ferrer is especially convincing. The fascinating quintet converging on Pamplona for the fiesta is rounded out by Errol Flynn (wonderful as boozy Mike Campbell, the happy-went-lucky bankrupt) and Eddie Albert (as Bill Gorton, everybody...
Robert Vickrey's fine cover certainly shows the transition from bitchery to virtue-a grand job. Hope Harry Cohn's protégé completes the full cycle...
...Novak's vacuous eyes, her custard-bowl face: what Harry Cohn hath wrought! C. W. NELSON...