Word: needleman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning of Radio Days a burglar picks up the phone in the midst of robbing the Marty Needleman residence and answers the questions put to him by the cheery host of Guess That Tune. With a little help from his partner, he wins a truckful of major appliances for his victims. We may imagine their despair over returning to a ransacked home. But we are privy to their nonplussed elation the next morning when the windfall lands on their doorstep. It might be said that they experienced the "miracle of radio" (as it was known in the innocent...
Pharmacologist Philip Needleman of Washington University in St. Louis predicts that within five years doctors will begin testing drugs that limit the clogging of blood vessels initiated by platelets. Says he: "This is not a remote dream. This is a strategy that will have important applications quickly...