Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana, Dr. Rebstock (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1945) joined Parke, Davis soon after she left school. She was assigned to the chloromycetin research project in 1947. After two years of testing, she became the first to isolate a synthetic form of chloromycetin that worked on human patients. The life-saving antibiotic contains two chemicals which are normally poisonous: a nitrobenzene compound and a derivative of dichloracetic acid, now used chiefly for getting rid of warts...
...Theodore Roosevelt sneered at McClure's for "muckraking," but Editor McClure assigned his staffers to rake more muck.* Ida M. Tarbell went after the Standard Oil Co.; Ray Stannard Baker, incensed at the land-grabbing railroads, wrote The Railroads on Trial; Burton J. Hendrick spilled his Story of Life Insurance. When aroused state legislatures passed laws checking the excesses of big business, and reform candidates were elected to public office, "T.R." saw the light and grinned. He called S. S. McClure's crusading muckrakers to the White House to discuss trustbusting and business regulation. By 1905, McClure...
Rivera's mountainous form has always been a cynosure of neighboring eyes, and even among Mexico City's easygoing artists he is notorious for his good-neighbor policy, but Frida maintains a dignified silence about the women who have thronged his life. "Probably people expect of me a very personal portrait," she explains, " 'feminine,' anecdotal, diverting, full of complaints and gossip . . . Perhaps they expect to hear 'laments of 'all that has been suffered' living with a man like Diego. But I do not believe the banks of a river suffer for letting...
...True Truth. There has never been much consistency in the surging course of Artist Rivera's life. He was born 62 years ago in the mountain town of Guanajuato, and was involved almost at once in the kind of controversy that has surrounded him ever since. His mother was an ardent Catholic, his father a revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Acting with characteristic dispatch, little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swears that his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his piping diatribes against the Church...
...Posada, the Daumier of Mexico, whose printmaking shop stood near the school. "I used to peer into his window every evening," says Rivera, "until at last he invited me inside. We talked together for seven years, about politics and art. He taught me the connection between art and life; that you can't express what you don't feel...