Word: leonard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story was assigned to TIME'S Science editor, Jonathan Norton Leonard. Like his recent cover stories on Astronomer Edwin Hubble (TIME, Feb. 9, 1948) and Jet Pilot Charles Yeager (TIME, April 18), this one meant that he had to immerse himself quickly in a serious, highly technical...
Daily, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Leonard went through Memorial and Sloan-Kettering, talking to biochemists, organic chemists, physical chemists, physicists, virologists, clinicians, surgeons, etc. He talked to Dr. Rhoads for hours on end, and at night read through the foot-high stack of scientific papers the director had given him. Some of them were as yet unpublished. Most were written in science's highly technical terminology, and in the process of reading them Leonard found himself learning new languages like that of cytology (the study of cells...
Meanwhile, Miss Farmer interviewed researchers, nurses, hospital attendants, superintendents, and others. Leonard found that Memorial's highly effective working laboratory was unspectacular and full of quiet purpose. What he couldn't help remembering, however, were the jolly children in Room 102 L, undergoing treatment for the dread disease, leukemia. When he sat down at his typewriter to try to tell his story clearly and accurately, without oversimplifying or sensationalizing it, the children in 102 L "automatically" became the lead...
...Baum, Leonard of 2 Amherst Street, Brooklyn; Abraham Lincoln High School. Schwartz, Herman of 1492 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Technical High School. Soule, William Lamson of 2794 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn; Brooklyn Technical High School. Freimer, Marshall Leonard of 392 East 4th Street, Brooklyn; Erasmus Hall High School...
Members of the committee appointed by Fischelis are: Donald L. Bornstein '50, William H. Claflin '50, Paul J. Douglass '50, Jerome P. Gavin '50, Leonard C. Gordon '51, David J. Hanson '52. Bruce Harriman '50, John T. Hazel, Jr. '51, Frederic D. Houghteling '50, Robert P. Hyde '51, Richard W. Kimball...