Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Werner Forssmann was young (25) and eager to prove the worth of a revolutionary idea: that it should be possible to learn more about the inside of a diseased human heart by inserting a thin rubber tube (catheter) into it. But none of his hospital colleagues in Eberswalde, near Berlin, was willing to be a guinea pig. Suspecting the gleam in young Forssmann's eyes, the chief surgeon even forbade his experimenting on himself. Secretly one night Dr. Forssmann punctured a vein in his arm and persuaded a fellow resident to start working a tube into it. With little...
...success and no story: the producers all too often eliminate the key facts of the fellow's life at the insistence of lawyers and relatives, or even in the interests of good taste. To correct this defect, Author John (Ten North Frederick) O'Hara has developed an idea that may in future save the public ear from being so painfully chewed by Hollywood's more persistent ego beavers. He has written a "biopic" without a bio. The heroes of this latest vanity film are Lew Brown, Ray Henderson and the late Buddy de Sylva, the well-known...
...year and a half (including a few weeks as Washington's aide-de-camp). Then, disappointed that the commission making him a full colonel at the age of 20 was postdated by three months, he resigned. "A soldier's honor," Trumbull haughtily informed Congress, "forbids the idea of giving up the least pretension of rank...
...towners have any idea what it costs a Manhattan company to grant their ticket requests. For their three-day sales convention in December, one company started a month ago to track down 72 tickets for My Fair Lady, had to pay $22.50 apiece. Another company, which forgot to order World Series tickets awarded to a contest winner, put in an urgent call to its New York advertising agency to find four seats, got clipped $208 over the box-office price. As one adman explained: "We have a perfectly honest agent who gets our tickets at regular prices. We have very...
Paratroops & Passengers. Chairman Chennault can also take satisfaction from the fact that CAT's new management, headed by ex-Pan American Pilot George A. Doole Jr., vice chairman, has managed to turn his idea into a moneymaking operation. With a reputation for flying anything, anywhere, anytime, CAT was right on the spot flying charter flights for the U.S. Air Force during the Korean war, helped out during the fight for Dienbienphu in Indo-China, where CAT pilots buzzed through murderous antiaircraft fire to drop French paratroops, munitions and medical supplies. As a scheduled airline, 60% owned by Nationalist Chinese...