Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Myra Hess, British pianist now in London, has received 315 birthday greetings by mail since her birthday-last Feb. 25. Mutual friends conspired in a "chain-greeting" plot. Among the conspirators: Lord Halifax, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Thornton Wilder, Albert Einstein...
...epileptics in the U.S. have a better chance of leading normal life than ever before. Such is the optimistic opinion of two top-flight experts in epilepsy: Dr. Wilder Penfield, head of the Montreal Neurological Institute, and Dr. Theodore Charles Erickson of the University of Wisconsin. Last week they published the scientific reasons for this belief in an authoritative text on epilepsy (Epilepsy and Cerebral Localization; C. C. Thomas...
...carelessly worded message which could be misinterpreted could change the situation from good clean fun into something which would reflect badly upon the individual and the college. We ask your cooperation! Anne Wilder, Director Press Bureau, Mount Holyoke College...
...Northampton doctor, Hoadley "came toward" biology as early as 1908, while he was still in grammar school. His father died at that time and the boy became very good friends with his back door neighbor, H. H. Wilder, who was Professor of Zoology at Smith College. During these years, while other boys were playing marbles, young Leigh would prepare skeletons for the professor, who was doing some special work on the physiognomy of the American Indian. Later, in high school, he worked on brain sections. Then on his elderly friend's advice, Hoadley went to the University of Michigan, where...
Cafe society's Patricia Anne ("Honeychile") Wilder went bankrupt for $8,212.24-mostly clothes and a $600 phone bill. ≤≤ Tallulah Bankhead took her lion cub to the zoo for a publicity shot, got bitten by a chimpanzee...