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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage-struck hayseed from Ohio, Betty is in love with a struggling young director (Victor Mature). She is also in love with the tinsel night life of the big city, a yen which presently involves her in murder and a violent brush with the underworld...
Waksman first thought of studying medicine, but Russia was not the place for him to do that. With four friends from Priluka, he decided to try his luck in the U.S. The young Ukrainians landed at Philadelphia in November 1910, and Waksman went to stay with a cousin, Molki Kornblatt, and her husband Mendel, on their five-acre farm in Metuchen, N. J. He weeded the vegetable garden, fed the chickens and dug pestholes, while the Kornblatts' children helped him improve his English. Kornblatt gave him some advice which proved decisive: go to see Dr. Jacob Lipman, another Russian...
Says modest Dr. Waksman: "I get students from all over the world, and sometimes I learn more from the student than he learns from me." Such a student came to Waksman in 1924 to work for his Ph.D.: a young (23) Frenchman named René Jules Dubos. Waksman turned Dubos loose on the activities of microbes in reducing plant fibers to humus...
Brilliant young Dubos went to work on a fantastic idea which, like many great ideas, was almost laughably simple: Why not feed disease germs to soil micro-organisms and see which species thrived on the diet...
Montserrat (adapted from the French of Emmanuel Robles by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Gilbert Miller) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...