Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black-eyed Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay is often referred to as "the world's greatest living physiologist" (TIME, May 5). Medical researchers are also enthusiastic about a gifted pair of biochemists at St. Louis' Washington University: shy Dr. Carl Ferdinand Cori and his redhaired, vivacious wife Gerty. Few scientists were surprised last week when Stockholm announced that Houssay and Cori & Cori had been jointly awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine...
...Coris were not the first husband-&-wife team so honored (former prizewinners: Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie Curie, Chemists Frederic Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot). Carl, 50, and Gerty Cori, 51, both born in what used to be Austria-Hungary, met as medical students in the same class at the University of Prague, soon afterward were married and teamed up in a lifetime study of the mysterious chemistry of the human body. Their work may some day lead to a cure for diabetes (TIME, May 12). At Washington...
...quarrels, lots of showy New Zealand background, one of the jolliest earthquakes ever filmed, a rip-roaring attack by Hollywood Maoris (who all seem to be named "Hemo"), and the limited advances, with flaring nostrils, of Mr. Heflin, who cherishes quite a yen for his business partner's wife...
...rest of Caldwell's characters are off the same near-caricature assembly line as Molly and Lily. For the perennial Jeeter-type there is Jethro, Putt's shiftless farmhand brother. The strait-laced minister's young wife has "vitamin" binges with Molly on the sly, finally runs off with a salesman. "He [Rev. Bigbee] won't even let me undress without turning out the lights, and I have to wear long-sleeved nightgowns that drag the floor. This morning as soon as he left I took off all my clothes and ran out into the backyard...
...Divinity School professor noted that he and his wife spent last summer in Oslo for the first time, and he regretted that the chance for a second visit didn't come "a little farther apart...