Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope this brings in some cigars," Dr. Schmidt cracked. "I'm down to my last thousand." As one of the nation's leading urologists and one of its most effective crusaders against venereal diseases, Dr. Schmidt would get both his cigars and the unstinted praises of his associates...
Crusty old Louis Ernst Schmidt likes his reputation as a terrible-tempered man. But this week, portly, pink-cheeked Dr. Schmidt was basking in a Sabbathlike calm. It was the physician's 80th birthday, and a delegation of colleagues turned up, first to give him a reception at Northwestern's medical school library and then a banquet at Chicago's Drake Hotel...
Cuban justice had seemed as indignant over Patricia ("Satira") Schmidt's violation of Latin good manners as it was over the fact that she killed her lover, John Lester Mee, with a .22 pistol. In sentencing Cootch-Dancer Schmidt to 15 yeacs for manslaughter (TIME, Feb. 2), the judges had chided her for "appearing nude on the deck of [Mee's] yacht like a nymph," and for "swimming naked in [Havana] Bay." Said Toledo-born Satira: "They just don't understand our customs...
Last week, after 17 months in prison, long-legged Satira had no trouble in understanding an old Cuban custom. In line with tradition, President Ramón Grau San Martin celebrated the end of his four-year term by pardoning a select list of criminals. Among them: Patricia Schmidt...
Last year Drs. De Robertis & Schmidt turned their electron microscope, which is far sharper-sighted than the ordinary "light microscope," on nerve fibers, the delicate tendrils sent out by nerve cells. They found that the fibers were cables made up of many hollow tubes about one-millionth of an inch in diameter. The discovery gave them an idea. The "neuro-tubules" seemed ideally adapted for conducting submicroscopic objects around the body. Perhaps, thought the doctors, they conducted the polio virus on its missions of paralysis and death...