Word: heart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert E. Gross, Ladd Professor of Children's Surgery at the Medical School, will receive the 1959 Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association "for distinguished achievement in the field of cardio-vascular research" in Philadelphia Sunday...
Gross, who pioneered the way for modern heart surgery in 1938 by performing the first successful operation on an inborn cardiovascular defect, is the first surgeon to receive the $2,500 award in the seven years since its endowment...
...topflight British scientist who chairmaned the Air Ministry's secret research committee that devised air weapons for World War II, supervised and contributed significantly to the development of radar in time to provide a chain of radar stations for the Battle of Britain, personally carried (1940) the magnetron, heart of radar, to the U.S. where it was quickly put into mass production; in Fareham, England...
...unattended wife meets a tall, straightforward French soldier (Cesare Danova). In his wallet is a seminude picture of her, clipped from a fan magazine; he has carried it from the 38th Parallel to Dienbienphu. He shows it to her and confesses his secret love. She bares her arid heart. They bolt to his clifftop villa...
Speaking as Dean of Harvard College, John U. Monro '34, has stated that the loyalty oath provisions of the NDEA are "180 degrees out of phase with what we are trying to do here" and "cut at the heart of our operation in the College...