Word: perfectionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cohn, a perfectionist, this was grossly wasteful. Usually, only one or two components of plasma were needed for each case. So he set to work in his laboratory, separating blood fluid into its many fractions, and soon had a practical method for extracting serum albumin. This was less bulky than plasma, kept better, and was far more economical. But it was not good enough for Cohn...
...Vito has been asked several times to tour the U.S., once actually signed a contract, but her mother died and she canceled the trip. As a next best thing, RCA Victor plans to release some of her records soon, but De Vito, ever the perfectionist, is underjoyed. "I don't like any of them," she says...
Texas turns out golfers of a perfectionist and fiercely competitive strain, e.g., Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Babe Didrikson Zaharias. This week Texans were talking about a trim (5 ft. 6 in., 133 Ibs.), professedly lazy 19-year-old girl who appears to be neither a perfectionist nor fiercely competitive, but whose name is already on a lot of golf trophies. It is a name that Texans expect soon to be known to the outside world: Lesbia Lobo of San Antonio...
...Cockneys. Ever the perfectionist, he once borrowed a chisel to set right a grammatical error on his grandfather-in-law's tombstone. But he found it harder to meet the recurrent agony of writing: "A hundred pages more, and this cursed book is flung out from me." Some days he had "the strength of 20,000 cockneys"; on others he was "sunk as in tropical oppression" with a "base, underhand desire to lie down in everlasting leaden sleep." Sometimes the limp writing hand he held out for Jane Carlyle to pat was only slapped, and Carlyle would whimper...
Producer-Director George Cooper Stevens, 48, is a perfectionist who came up an odd way: at 19, he was the youngest cameraman in Hollywood, and his specialty was comedy (including 60 or more Laurel & Hardy and Harry Langdon shorts). Hal Roach made him a director (of shorts) in 1929, and Stevens moved on into feature-length pictures merely by stretching out his two-reelers. His first big hit was Alice Adams (1935)., followed by such topnotchers as Gunga Din, Woman of the Year, The Talk of the Town, A Place in the Sun, Something to Live...