Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garden, No Fish. Dr. Waksman, often called the dean of U.S. researchers in antibiotics, was born of Jewish parents in Priluki, a Russian peasant village near Kiev. He came to the U.S. at 22. In 1915 he got a job as research assistant at the experiment station and began working with soil microorganisms, the starting point of the antibiotics. In 1939 he began studying the relation of the soil organisms to disease. He still keeps in his littered desk samples of the first antibiotic he isolated, in 1940. Called actinomycin, it proved too poisonous for clinical use. But he went...
...magazine's cover was a color photograph of a Williamsburg garden, bright with massed red tulips, yellow pansies and pink apple blossoms. Better Homes and Gardens did more than picture the garden on its April issue. Inside, the editors told readers how to grow such a garden in their backyards. Such practical "how-to-do-it" stories have made Better Homes and Gardens (circ. 3,250,000) the bestselling homemaking magazine in the U.S.* and the current issue the plumpest (322 pp.) and most profitable ($2,000,000 worth of ads) in its 27-year history...
...year-old bridegroom a dying Populist paper, the Des Moines Farmers' Tribune. In seven years, Meredith put the unsuccessful Tribune into the black, then sold it to start Successful Farming with the profits. By 1922, he was selling ads for the first issue of his second magazine, Fruit, Garden and Home (now B. H. & G.). At his death in 1928, Publisher Meredith (who had been Wilson's Secretary of Agriculture) left a gilt-edged business to his son-in-law, President Fred Bohen, now 53, and to his son, Vice President and Treasurer E. T. Meredith...
Editor McDonough has no bachelors and only four unmarried women on his staff of 30, because he wants his editors and writers to "live the job." The typical B. H. & G. staffer is in the middle 30s, has two children, owns a better home and garden, and frequently lets readers see it (in the current issue, Foods & Equipment Editor Myrna Johnston shows her own kitchen...
...Runners-up: American Home (circ. 2,580,-ooo), House Beautiful (509,800), House and Garden...