Background
Block,, Paul was born on May 11, 1911 in New York City. Son of Paul and Dina (Wallach) Block.
Block,, Paul was born on May 11, 1911 in New York City. Son of Paul and Dina (Wallach) Block.
Graduate, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut, 1929. AB, Yale, 1933; Postgraduate, Columbia, 1934. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1943.
Postgraduate, Harvard, 1935.
Reporter Toledo Blade, 1935, became political writer, 1938, assistant editor, 1941, co-public, 1942, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 1944-1987. Fellow Mellon Institute Industrial Research, Pittsburgh, 1943-1944. Honorary fellow department pharmacology Yale University, 1948-1949.
Chairman Toledo Development Committee, 1975-1979. Chairman board trustees Medical College Ohio at Toledo, 1964-1970. Member United States Metric Board, 1978-1980.
Member American Chemical Society, American Society Newspaper Editors, International Press Institute (chairman American committee 1958-1961), Sigma Xi.
Married Eleana Barnes Conley, 1940 (divorced 1947). 1 son, Cyrus P.; married Marjorie McNab Main, May 26, 1948 (deceased September 1960). Children– Allan James, John Robinson.
Married Mary Gall Petok, 1965. 3 children by previous marriage.