Word: sabine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorado, the fur flew. The cause of the commotion was a grey, chunky, 75-year-old woman, who stumped up & down the state, making three speeches a day, buttonholing businessmen, doctors, politicians, writing letters morning & night. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, "the greatest living woman scientist" (according to Dr. Simon Flexner, late famed director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research), was out to reduce Colorado's shockingly high death rate from disease...
First of the ex-kings to fall was long-faced, impetuous Bill Tilden, whose tennis was good for a 53-year-old but not good enough to beat 30-year-old Wayne Sabin. Sabin advanced to the quarterfinals, there met Britain's onetime Davis Cupper Fred Perry. Falling behind, trigger-tempered Wayne Sabin began swearing and banging balls out of the arena. At one point, Perry stopped the game, announced: "I won't play any more with a man who has such court manners." He was finally persuaded to go on, and lost. In another match, caper-cutting...
...eared Bill Talbert, unbeaten in nine tune-up tournaments, admitted that his game was better than ever; the 64th United States Lawn Tennis Champion ships looked like a breeze. Then Sergeant Frank Parker flew in from Guam, 10 lbs. thinner and fitter, razor-sharp from Marianas matches with Wayne Sabin, Don Budge and Bobby Riggs. Said Singles Champion Parker: "My game is better than ever...
Working on the experiments is Major Albert Bruce Sabin, Rockefeller Institute and University of Cincinnati researcher on poliomyelitis and other viruses. With a satchelful of serum, flies, cultures and swabs, he has shuttled for six months between the Trenton penitentiary and the Rockefeller Institute's Princeton laboratories...
...When Dr. Sabin bestowed the certificates, 850 fellow convicts whistled and cheered. They learned that 300 had volunteered for the experiments, even when told that the diseases, while rarely fatal, were violent, painful and feverish. Some of the certificates went to men still weak and shaky from fever. Seventeen of them had to be presented in the prison's isolation ward...