Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torrent of science propaganda has sluiced from Moscow's presses. Murky with Marxist doubletalk, it praises Soviet science, denounces Western science as the tool of capitalism and the slave of doctrinal errors, such as "idealism" and "formalism." Along with the orchids for Russia and brickbats for the West go long polemic discourses on such subjects as genetics and quantum mechanics. Most of it is far above the heads of the Russian (or any other) general public...
Soon after he joined Northwestern's medical school faculty in 1898, he set up the first genitourinary clinic west of the Alleghenies. In those days, VD was a topic for medical people only, and seldom men tioned aloud. Schmidt bellowed loud demands that the medical profession get to work and make VD treatments available to low-income families. He set up a VD clinic which was soon treating more than 2,000 daily, for small fees or no fees...
Mermaid & Dragon. Runners-up to these leaders are Pixie Playtime, on Manhattan's WPIX, featuring Peter W. Pixie, assisted by a Mae West-like mermaid and a witch who tortures victims by telling them old radio jokes; Little Bordy, a puppet disc jockey; the Suzari Marionettes on ABC's The Singing Lady; Du Mont's woodenheaded Oky-Doky; and Mr. Do-Good and Judy Splinters, a pair of West Coast contenders. Du Mont's popular Small Fry Club, which has previously depended on animated cartoons, movies and interminable commercials, is next week adding to its cast...
...Theme. Stationed on the West Coast, Percy spent his spare time studying West Coast industries and the causes of strikes. His reports so impressed McNabb that when Chuck Percy was discharged (as lieutenant), he became Bell & Howell's industrial relations and personnel director. As such, he plugged his main theme: workers had to be given a sense of importance and "belonging" to the company...
Died. Robert I. Aitken, 70, noted sculptor, whose public monuments and statues are sightseeing musts in many U.S. cities; after long illness; in Manhattan. His major work: the west pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court building, in which he included a statue of himself...