Word: cremin
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...great cheer to Arthur Cremin, who has sent $1,000 to. Dr. Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, through TIME [May 29]. Perhaps this noble gesture will attract the attention of the chemical companies who will commercialize and market this "wonder drug" and make them realize that it would be only fair to let Drs. Fleming & Florey share their great profits...
...read that extraordinary communication from Arthur Cremin in TIME'S Letters column last week? Its most memorable sentence was this: "To hell with all mankind when, through indifference to the great men who alleviate pain, it permits them either to starve, die of broken hearts, or pass their last days in acrimonious obscurity...
What had so outraged Mr. Cremin was something he had learned from our cover story on Dr. Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin-the news that 63-year-old Dr. Fleming had received not a penny for his momentous achievement. Mr. Cremin decided to do something about it - enclosed with his letter a $1 ,000 check to Dr. Fleming's order-asked TIME to forward it. TIME did-and added our own check for a second...
...ARTHUR CREMIN New York City...
...TIME has forwarded Reader Cremin's check for $1,000 to Dr. Fleming...