Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenement-walled, children-cluttered street of Manhattan's lower East Side works Professor Park. For 38 years he has been a great Name in immunology. His New York Board of Health vaccines and serums are esteemed throughout the world. New York University medical students have learned bacteriology & hygiene from him since 1897. But somehow the man's personality has escaped the record...
...Park used to take his test tubes of germs to bed with him to keep them warm. One of his early laboratories was in the Criminal Courts building. The judges disliked his guinea pigs, drove him out. He found a corner in a municipal disinfectant plant, eventually got a regular building and a staff, which now numbers...
...Park's own office looks over the East River. There he sits in a leather upholstered swivel chair, one leg across the other, hands locked behind his thin silvery hair, thinking or talking. He has a dry, brittle, rapid voice, smiles easily. His staff venerate him, play tennis with him (he was 69 last month) on the court adjoining the laboratory building. In summer he fishes in the St. Lawrence...
...first assistant, and collaborator ever since, has been Dr. Anna Wessels Williams, who will be 70 next St. Patrick's Day. Mused Dr. Park last week: "Thirty-nine years! I don't know what I would have done without her." Neither has married. Says Dr. Park: "The laboratory is my baby...
Cohan). Found on a park bench chatting familiarly with the pigeons, the bum has told the tycoon a story of his life. The tycoon, astounded by a renegade with elements of greatness, offers Parker hospitality, grudgingly refused. A neat plot, promising an idea play, skitters at that point into Pirandello-echoing lunacy...