Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young realists certainly do. In a forthcoming book (Conversations with Artists, by Selden Rodman) Painters Jack Levine and Andrew Wyeth give professional appraisals. Hopper "does what he sets out to do," Levine says admiringly. "No dreams of the old masters set him off his course . . . Hopper looks inland. He's an American painter all the way." Wyeth goes farther still: "What makes Rembrandt so very great is that his concern for other people and for nature always shows through, giving his paintings a dimension of identification and self-effacement that is almost unique in art. Titian doesn...
...Wyeth, Inc., which calls the same drug Equanil. Hollywood is, naturally, the hottest market. A drugstore at Sunset and Gower splashed huge red letters across its window when a shipment arrived: "Yes, we have Miltown!" Most of the time, this and other drugstores are not so fortunate. Schwab's, Los Angeles' best known, has dispensed 250,000 pills (both brands) from four stores in four months, and has turned away more orders than it has filled...
...something went wrong. Among those who got vaccine made by California's Cutter Laboratories, 79 developed polio; so did 105 members of their families and 20 "com munity contacts." Three-fourths of the cases were paralytic; there were eleven deaths. Vaccine from a second manufacturer, Pennsylvania's Wyeth Laboratories, was suspected of responsibility for an unstated number of polio cases in the East, but the most rigorous testing by the federal Division of Biologic Standards failed to demonstrate live virus. These cases remained a disguieting mystery...
...Andrew Wyeth, painter . . . . Arts...
...have shipped vaccine, two (Parke, Davis & Co. and Pitman-Moore) had spotless records: no reported cases of polio after use of their vaccine. But the U.S. (mostly western) total of such cases reached 78: after Cutter vaccine, 59 (five fatal); after Eli Lilly & Co.'s, 14; and after Wyeth's, five...