Word: korngold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LAST YEARS OF NAPOLEON (429 pp.) - Ralph Korngold - Harcourt, Brace...
...life of Napoleon and his retinue on St. Helena is a kind of tragicomic parody of those scenes in Shakespeare where the king moves his court to some enchanted forest to frolic and philosophize. In a graphic, day-by-day account of the exile years, Historian Ralph Korngold reveals the constant bickering and backbiting of the Napoleonic entourage. Napoleon himself, argues Korngold, may have been hounded to a premature death by the erratic restrictions and petty cruelties of the British governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, a fussy, indecisive simpleton...
...radioactive antibodies as "guided missiles" against cancerous tissue was reported by Doctors David Pressman and Leonhard Korngold, both of Memorial Center. They injected a suspension of mouse cancer into rabbits, whereupon the rabbits reacted by producing antibodies with a special affinity for the invading cancer cells. Serum containing these antibodies was taken from the rabbits and combined with radioactive iodine, then injected into the cancerous mice. When the cancers were later removed from these mice, the doctors found that the radioactive antibodies had concentrated in the malignant tissue. The hope: to transport destructive amounts of radioactivity to human cancer tissue...
...FRIENDS OF MAN (425 pp.]-Ralph Korngold-Little, Brown...
...these two men formed the stiff-necked, tough-spirited leadership of the most fiery social movement in 19th Century U.S.-abolitionism. Their collaboration and eventual split is the subject of Ralph Korngold's Two Friends of Man, a galloping history that has much of the excitement and frenzy of its subject...