Word: wallerstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ossining Hospital, on a hill overlooking the high-walled prison. The eight-year-old girl was in a private room in the same building. She was near death from leukemia, the cancer-like disease of the blood-making system for which no cure is known. Manhattan Hematologist Harry Wallerstein took the child to Ossining because he knew that prisoners there were willing to volunteer as guinea pigs for medical experiments.* Chief Prison Physician Charles C. Sweet had no trouble finding a man willing to take a chance, although he offered no rewards...
BERNARD S. WALLERSTEIN Newark...
...murder" because a heroic exit would let him die believing that he was a better man than his wife's lover, Hostage Lobkowitz. Hostage Preissinger, who wanted to save his skin, tried to pin the murder on Hostage Janoshik, stalwart member of the Underground movement. Dr. Wallerstein, psychoanalyst and Hostage No. 5, asked only that he be allowed to record the psychological behavior of his four doomed mates, so that his memory would live as the author of a unique case history...
Author Heym approves Dr. Wallerstein's findings: that all men are not heroes in the face of death. When Commissioner Reinhardt's scheme finally won out and the hostages were shot, only burly, talkative, astute Hostage Janoshik left a noble record-which bore fruit in the blowing up of three ammunition barges on the morning of the execution...
...price cut threw the rest of the record industry into the whoops & jingles. Victor, Columbia's towering competitor, went into a huddle to consider ways & means of countering Wallerstein's move...