Word: gebhard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among those in the U.S. who had a hand in its development were: a Navy quartet. of physicists and radio hams-Albert H. Taylor, Leo C. Young, Robert M. Page and Louis A. Gebhard-who pioneered radar in the '205 and '303; the Signal Corps' Colonel Roger Colton (now an A.A.F. major general), whose laboratory staff at Fort Monmouth designed the first Army set; Stanford University's R. H. and S. F. Varian, who invented the important klystron tube; and a great anonymous army of scientists at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories, General...
Originator of this modern medicine show is plump, German-born Dr. Bruno Gebhard, onetime curator of the famed Dresden Museum of Hygiene. He produced his first big U.S. hit at New York's World Fair in 1939-40, where his medicine and health show was among the best attended. At the Fair and on the road, his famed "transparent man" gave millions the willies...
...years ago Showman Gebhard set up his pitch in Cleveland's old Prentiss mansion on Euclid Avenue. Since then, abetted by a weekly radio program and sideshows in bank lobbies, schools, settlement houses, factory lunchrooms, the doctor has succeeded in making Clevelanders exceedingly health-conscious. Last week he made a splash in a bigger puddle: his Health Museum launched its first class for "interns" - 29 graduate students from North Carolina's School of Public Health, who will teach health the Gebhard way in the U.S., Peru, China...
...Biographer James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think your reason is as distinguished as your imagination? Believe me, Zelide, it is not. Believe me and endeavor to improve. . . ." (She rejected him.) Field Marshal Gebhard von Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision for my old age and for the welfare of my children. ... I am aware, dear lady, that you are the possessor of a considerable income. . . ." The Duke of Sussex...
...Rarette, Jr. Virginia Seay, Vassar John H. Vaughan Patricia Adams, Wellesley George Waissbord-Solovieff Marguerite Madden, Winsor Morton Waldstein Marie Core Duffy, Vassar Rufus F. Walker Susan Strong, Dover Willard M. Waterous Barbara Phair, Mount Holyoke College George F. Waters Ann Clarke, Beaver Country Day Frank J. Webster Jean Gebhard, Pine Manor John Wingate Weeks, II Sally Cole, North Andover Clifford E. Weihman Louise Brown, New York Joseph D. Welsh Helen Cronin, Milton Frederick G. Whoriskey Marjorie Griggs, Wellesley David Wise, Jr. Charlotte Mendelsohn, Brookline Atwood C. Wolf, Jr. Jayne Stevens, Boston William A. Wolfe Betty Joe Coffey, Smith Mark...