Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbia's slim, publicity-shy Robert Frederick Loeb (pronounced Lerb), 64, Bard professor of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, one of the nation's top medical teachers. Son of famed Physiologist Jacques Loeb, discoverer of artificial parthenogenesis, Robert Loeb left the University of Chicago after his sophomore year in 1915 to enter Harvard Medical School, graduated magna cum laude. After residency at Johns Hopkins, Loeb switched to Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital in 1921, helped administer the first insulin treatment for diabetes, pioneered in electrolyte physiology, discovered the first effective treatment for Addison...
...last week to enthusiastic reviews. But those who had read the novel from which the movie was made should have realized that it was a phony from the start. The Spitter was written 13 years ago by Boris Vian (a civil engineer by day, a jazz trumpeter in a Left Bank cave by night); its publishers claimed that it was a translation from a U.S. novel by one Vernon Sullivan. The public loved its fake sociology and integrated lust, but when police found a copy beside a murder victim and saw that the book was opened to the account...
...first, A.R.S. hoped to make hobby rocketry safe by expert supervision, asked scientists and military men to help the amateurs. But now it thinks rockets are best left alone altogether. The game has grown too big and too dangerous. All told, says A.R.S., some 10,000 amateurs are fiddling around with rockets today. During a sample six-week period, 162 of them were seriously injured. At that rate, a teen-age rocketeer has one chance in seven of getting hurt each year...
Hurricane Cindy, which poohed out last week on the South Carolina coast, was not much of a storm, but it left the U.S. Weather Bureau's hurricane forecasters in a state of mild exaltation. Well before Cindy hit the coast, they predicted that she would be a mild blow and advised Carolinians to relax. The dead-accurate forecast saved untold time, effort and money, and to meteorologists, it was one more bit of evidence of how far their inexact science has advanced. In 1935 the Weather Bureau duly warned that a hurricane was approaching the Florida Keys. It could...
...happened, the lunch never came off. and De Vries, like a character in one of his novels (Comfort Me with Apples, The Mackerel Plaza. The Tunnel of Love), was left wistfully savoring the sour cream of the jest. This touch of rueful, pun-prone phantasmagoria has made 49-year-old Peter De Vries the leading comic geographer of commuterland. Humorist De Vries surveys his world with the wacky vision of a man who has inadvertently put on the wrong pair of glasses...