Word: lorenz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Russians entered Vienna last year, a party of Red Army surgeons stomped into the Hospital for Accidents. "Where is Bohler?" they demanded. "We want the nail." Dr. Lorenz Bohler, one of the best orthopedic surgeons in Europe was away-in a French prison camp. But the Russians got "the nail." By last week most of the rest of Europe had it too. The nail,* which Austrian Surgeon Bohler had used with wide success, is a remarkable device for mending broken bones, especially broken thighbones...
...Lorenz Benedikt Kochler...
Died. Dr. Adolf Lorenz, 91, Viennese orthopedic specialist whose well-publicized knifeless cures of crippled kings and commoners earned him world fame; in Vienna...
Died. Hatcher Hughes, 64, one-hit playwright (HellBent for Heaven, 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winner), who taught playwriting (among his pupils: Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) at Columbia University; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
...lyric writer, Hammerstein has never equaled Lorenz Hart for inventiveness or Cole Porter for sophistication. But he is always serviceable, often scintillating. He gets more meaning, character and humanity into his book-writing than most of his rivals. One reason may be that many of his librettos were discerningly adapted from fairly full-blooded material. Another likely reason: Hammerstein lacks the typical Tin Pan Alley taste and the blatantly Broadway mind. He is ruefully conscious that the librettist is the whipping boy of musicomedy, the first to be blamed for a failure, the last to get credit for a success...