Word: kruif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yellow Jack (by Sidney Howard in collaboration with Paul de Kruif; produced by the American Repertory Theatre) is still, after 13 years, a vivid stage document. It tells the story of the search for the cause of yellow fever and, without too much sentimentality, portrays the heroism of men' who gambled their lives in the quest...
...children) through the grille of the visitors' room. Wilhelm Frick moaned: "All is finished, and there isn't much use waiting around." Goring read Bengt W. K. Berg's To Africa with the Migratory Birds. Funk (who had escaped with life) read Paul de Kruif's Men against Death...
Ribald allusions to "Doctor de Kruif" (Bacteriologist de Kruif has a Ph.D., no M.D.) were a stock joke at the A.M.A. Convention last fortnight. Last week in the A.M.A. Journal Federal Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger viewed with alarm De Kruif's latest discovery: Demerol ("God's Own Medicine-1946," Reader's Digest for June), a painkilling drug which acts much like morphine but is not, said De Kruif, habit-forming...
...protested Anslinger, many cases of Demerol addiction have been recorded. He forecast "a wave of Demerol addiction" if doctors and the public swallow De Kruif's "reckless and dangerous statements." First found in Germany in 1939, Demerol has been synthesized in the U.S. since 1941, was placed under federal narcotics control...
...means the first time De Kruif's knuckles had been rapped in the A.M.A. Journal. Among other condemned De Kruif marvels...