Word: lewisohn
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Last week in Atlantic City, the American College of Surgeons belatedly bestowed its highest academic honor, an honorary fellowship, on Transfusion Pioneer Richard Lewisohn, 84. Born and educated in Germany, Dr. Lewisohn came to the U.S. in 1907, and within a year joined the surgical staff of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He has been there ever since. Besides his historic work on citration, Dr. Lewisohn introduced more drastic (and proportionately more effective) operations for stomach ulcers, and pioneered in using the first crude preparations of folic-acid antagonists against cancer. Though technically retired, Dr. Lewisohn follows closely...
Died. Frederick Lewisohn, 77, nephew of New York City's famed Philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn (patron saint of Lewisohn Stadium), an organizer of several of the mightiest U.S. mining and smelting companies, e.g., Anaconda Copper, American Smelting & Refining, in later years a big help to the late Robert R. Young in his successful fight to win control of the New York Central Railroad; of a heart attack; in Monte Carlo...
...child," as Observer Margot Asquith described her, was Singer Lotte Lenya. The song was by her husband, Composer Kurt Weill, who celebrated the mood of his German generation in such gorgeously tawdry musical plays as The Threepenny Opera and Mahagonny. Last week, in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, Singer Lenya, fiftyish, stepped before a microphone again and rekindled the feeling of those darkly cynical days. The concert was a tribute both to Composer Weill's remarkable durability and to Lotte Lenya's own great gifts as a singing actress...
...instigation of a psychiatrist who obviously hated me." He was tossed out of the Musicians' Union for missing concerts, and though quickly reinstated, "I went on drugs because I was deeply hurt. I had been a good union man." After a last concert at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium in July 1953, Levant packed off to a Pasadena sanitarium. In 1956 he managed to last 18 weeks on a Los Angeles KNXT show, Words About Music, then got a reprimand for making anti-Nixon quips and quit in disgust. Last February, after more than a year in four sanitariums...
True Cross Section. Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn taught at Brandeis until his death in January. Columnist Max Lerner and Critic Louis Kronenberger commute from Manhattan to give courses. E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish and W. H. Auden have lectured on modern poetry, and such theater celebrities as Marc Con nelly and Arthur Miller have taught contemporary drama. "A school," says Sachar, "is not a curricular philosophy. It is the people you bring...