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Lady Robinson

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In 1957, Robinson  married Stearn Sylvia Hillstrom (née Hershey)

Said to have been a radio writer in Ohio

According to Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry July 1957 she was working alongside Sir Robertson on the distribution of anthocyanins in plants

https://pdfslide.us/documents/journal-of-the-royal-institute-of-chemistry-july-1957.html

Born and educated in Ohio, Stearn Robinson worked as a journalist and later as a radio writer. While living in Los Angeles, at the height of the glamorous Hollywood era, she wrote and produced a daily thirty-minute radio program for a West Coast network, famous at the time.

She resigned as vice president of a New York advertising agency on marrying Sir Robert Robinson, a world-renowned scientist who won a Nobel Prize. Lady Robinson was intensely interested in scientific subjects, and that is what led her to create the first series of cartoons with a special theme for children.

Lady Robinson studied the technique of dream interpretation and, along with Tom Corbett, the famous British medium, wrote The Dreamer's Dictionary.

Stearn Robinson - Profile Books

Title - DREAMER'S DICTIONARY : FROM A TO Z

Published - New York : Warner Books, 1974


MRS. HILLSTROM REWED; Married in London to Sir Robert Robinson, Chemist

LONDON, July 15—Sir Robert Robinson, British scientist, and Mrs. Stearn Hershey Hillstrom of New York were married today at the Caxton Hall Registrar's Office here. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Joseph Hershey of Detroit and the late Mr. Hershey, one-time Detroit Waterboard Commissioner. Her marriage to Nils W. Hillstrom ended in divorce. She has a daughter, Stephanie, a. student at Wellesley College, Sir Robert, who was a widower before his marriage yesterday, received the Nobel Prize in organic chemistry in 1947 and the Priestley Medal in chemistry in 1953. He is an internationally known authority on vitamins and other natural chemical substances. The bridegroom is a Fellow of the Royal Society and director of several companies.

Stearn Sylvia Hershey was born in Akron, Ohio, on 14 February 1911. She was of European descent; her father is variously described as an Austrian lawyer and a Hungarian real-estate manager. Her mother was of Hungarian origin. She had an older and a younger brother, to whom she felt close. Her first marriage to Nils Hillstrom of New York brought her into the world of entertainment: he was an executive of the Muzak Recording Company. They had a daughter Stephanie, born on 3 October 1936, but the marriage ended in divorce, and Stearn went for a time to live with her mother in Detroit. Then she worked as a journalist, and later as a radio scriptwriter responsible for a daily programme in Los Angeles: she spent eight years there in the days when Hollywood was at its peak. She then returned to New York as Vice-President of a large advertising agency, which also had interests in plastics, but continued her freelance activities. Her experience in Hollywood—and contact with leading figures there such as the actress Binnie Barnes (whose house at Sunningdale had so much impressed Robinson) and the film director Mike Mankowicz—led her to take an interest in motion pictures as a script writer.

M. J. Frankovich - Wikipedia


From the book: Robert Robinson, chemist extraordinary

by Williams, Trevor Illtyd

https://archive.org/details/robertrobinsonch0000will/mode/2up?q=%22sylvia+hershey%22

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