Word: zach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything out, the thoughtful gift is obvious: cuff links set with brightly colored, plastic-encased models of his stone-laden gall bladder or ulcer-ravaged duodenum. Creator of "The World's Sickest Looking Jewelry'' is Dr. Robert G. Zach, a Monroe, Wis. radiologist who is convinced, after years of peering at tangled viscera on X-ray plates, that beauty is not only all around him but inside him. Taking inspiration from the delicately twined tubes, sacs and ducts he photographed, Zach set to work with a dentist's drill and clear plastic, began passing out three...
Zechariah Chafee. Perhaps you would not have been quite so kind if you had been aware of "Zach's" goodbye to you in one of his last classes at the Law School. In describing LIFE and TIME, he said: "Everyone knows those two magazines-you know, the one for people who can't read and the one for the people who can't think...
Professor Arthur Sutherland, who, along with his son, was a pupil of Chafee's, lauds him as "a man who all his life has stood for the free man in the free society. He is in the forefront of the movement for human freedom throughout the world." Zach Chafee intends to remain in this forefront after his retirement. Although he will take more time out to enjoy boating, loud shirts, touring, and his eight grandchildren, Chafee plans to speak out more strongly than ever for the protection of freedom of expression. In retirement, he feels, there will be opportunity...