Word: strangeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Claremont Terminal was considered so juicy a prize after the Army took it over in the summer of 1951 that an underworld war was fought for rights to steal from it. (The Army abandoned the pier in disgust less than six months later.) A former longshoreman named Charles Strang testified how one Walter ("Wally the Shark") Marcinski boasted of having Mayor Kenny's "O.K." on the Claremont piers. Wally, said Strang. stole cases of tools from Army tanks. "They stole so much Army equipment that every longshoreman looked more like the Army than the Army itself...
...picture above, the hero (TED CRON '52) leaves Widener with Susan (DARE TAYLOR '53) on his right, and extra ANNE STRANG '53, on his left. His roommate (SAM TIMMONS '51) looks on with disgust. The scene isn't from the picture...
Father's Hope. Second daughter of a New York doctor who wanted a son to follow his profession, Elise Strang heard her father say of her: "This one will be my doctor." Dr. Strang died long before his daughter was ready for college, but she kept his fondest hope in mind. In 1896, at 16, she entered the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women & Children...
...York Infirmary, on the East Side, housed the first Kate Depew Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic. In its first year (1937), 71 women, apparently in good health, went there. Three had cancer. Dr. L'Esperance made most of the detailed, complicated examinations herself. As popular response doubled each year, a second clinic was opened in 1940 at Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. This clinic was later opened to men and children. Now, under Dr. L'Esperance's direction, 84 nurses, technicians and doctors (most of the doctors are part-time) do the work...
...fondly refers to a friend or an associate as "old buzzard." Exacting to a fault, Dr. L'Esperance sees things beginning to go her way. Since 1946, juniors from Cornell's Department of Preventive Medicine have had to take a session at the Memorial's Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic. This summer, the clinic at Memorial will get its first internes. Doctors who get this training, Dr. L'Esperance hopefully believes, may yet be able to prevent many a cancer by catching its first warning signals...