Word: wolcott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that auspicious day sandwiched between the official Washington's Birthday and the true date of Washington's birth--a scientist named Gibbs was born. Though he was not Gibbs-the-scientist, who garnered fame for his free energy equation, this Gibbs also achieved notoriety. This was the Wolcott Gibbs of the Gibbsians, a little known cult of fanatics not unlike the Moonies...
Brian H. MacMahon, Wolcott Professor of Epidemiology in the Faculty of Public Health, is serving on a panel which will evaluate the Food and Drug Administration's proposed saccharin ban for a Congressional committee...
...decidedly not. A seasoned New Yorker writer can make even New Yorker writers interesting. Besides, from the beginning, Ross's humor magazine attracted remarkable talents: Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, E.B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, S.J. Perelman, John O'Hara, Edmund Wilson, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, Saul Steinberg, George Price. The list can (and in Gill's telling does...
...college!" Their amazing success is a familiar story. TIME is founded in 1923 on capital of $86,000 scrounged mainly from the parents of college friends. FORTUNE follows, at $1 per copy in the first year of the Depression, the March of Time and LIFE, not to mention Wolcott Gibbs' still funny parody in The New Yorker: "Where it all will end, knows...