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News from Rahway. When the new drug was quietly announced two years ago by Drs. Selman Abraham Waksman and Harold Boyd Woodruff of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers, only its test-tube performance was known. The present excitement comes from mouse experiments last summer by research workers at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, at Rahway, N.J. (the drug has not yet been tried on people). The evidence...
...Harvard Statistical School have been recalled, some from active duty. The new instructors, all of the Army Air forces, are: Maj. Jackson W. Lord; Capts. Phillip Bahrman, Murray D. Dessel, and Harris H. Hanson; First Lt. J.R. Jullien; Second Lts. William L. Beaver, Robert L. Hooper, and Abraham M. Zibit...
Irresistible Elevator Man. Einstein's softheartedness has forced his family to form a protective cordon against salesmen and favor seekers. Not long ago an elevator company called Dr. Abraham Flexner, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study, whom Einstein had given as a reference, and announced that it had an order to install an elevator in Einstein's two-story Princeton house. Exclaimed Flexner: "In heaven's name, Albert, what would you do with an elevator?" Replied Einstein: "I do not know, but the man who came to interest me in it-I liked...
...tall, spare economist from the University of Denver, Dr. Abraham David Hannath Kaplan, returned from an economic expedition into darkest Reconversion last week with an assurance to U.S. businessmen that in the early postwar world they have little to fear. His report was his book The Liquidation of War Production (McGraw-Hill; $1.50), second of the projected series by the research division of the Committee for Economic Development...
Married. General Morris Abraham ("Two-Gun") Cohen, 57, old China hand and soldier of fortune; and Judith Clark, 40, proprietress of Montreal's Judith Clark dress shop; she for the second time, he for the first; in Montreal. A British-born onetime clothes peddler, he met China's late great Sun Yat-sen in Vancouver's Chinatown, became his personal bodyguard, later led Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese regulars and served in Europe as a secret agent for the Chinese...