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Dozoretz, 48, grew up in Worcester, Mass.; her mother was a homemaker, her father a dentist, teacher and sometime inventor. She rose from the retail-sales floor to become president of a women's clothier in New York City. By 1989, only in her late 30s, she had been twice divorced and was financially comfortable enough to contemplate retiring. Then, at a party, she met Ron Dozoretz, head of FHC Health Systems, a large behavioral-health, managed-care outfit. (His estimated net worth, according to Virginia Business magazine: $250 million.) He proposed two weeks after their first date...
...Baekeland, plastics pioneer --Tim Berners-Lee, Internet designer --Rachel Carson, environmentalist --Albert Einstein, physicist --Philo Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television --Enrico Fermi, atomic physicist --Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist --Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst --Robert Goddard, rocket scientist --Kurt Godel, mathematician --Edwin Hubble, astronomer --John Maynard Keynes, economist --The Leakey Family, anthropologists --Jean Piaget, child psychologist --Jonas Salk, virologist --William Shockley, solid-state physicist --Alan Turing, computer scientist --James Watson & Francis Crick, molecular biologists --Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher --The Wright Brothers, visionary aviators...
DIED. WALDO SEMON, 100, inventor and holder of 116 patents including vinyl and bubble gum; in Hudson, Ohio. As a young researcher for B.F. Goodrich, he turned a little-known chemical called polyvinyl chloride into a flexible, functional material. And as the U.S. was on the verge of depleting its natural rubber supply during World War II, he led the effort to produce a viable synthetic...
DIED. GENE SARAZEN, 97, golfer and inventor of the sand wedge; in Naples, Fla. Nicknamed the "Squire" for his diminutive size and enormous panache, Sarazen won two major championships before turning 21. At the 1935 Masters, where he became the first player to win all four majors, Sarazen struck the "shot heard round the world," a 235-yarder, for a double eagle on the 15th hole. Four decades later, still sporting his trademark knickers, he punctuated his last tournament with a hole...
...often that you get to see an inventor in his laboratory. But encountering Glover in this reprise of a show he did last fall is a little like being with Ford in Dearborn--or, more appropriately, Joyce in Dublin. Freed from the constraints of setting that defined him in Bring in 'Da Noise/ Bring in 'Da Funk, Glover and a small troupe create a phenomenally entertaining evening that's as emotionally eloquent as it is joyous. If your definition of a creative genius requires that the designee originate a new art, then Glover could be the paradigm...