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...TIME queried President Perry Burgess of the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy. Says he: ". . . Much excitement was created at the Cairo Conference on Leprosy two years ago by the reports and demonstrations which Dr. Saul Adler of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem made with respect to his attempts to transmit human leprosy to a small rodent found in the vicinity of Mt. Ararat and which is called the Syrian hamster...
...Adler was brought to the conference by the Leonard Wood Memorial because of the favorable reports on his work. Following that meeting a number of scientists visited his laboratories in Jerusalem. I believe it is fair to say that the majority of these men looked upon the work, not with entire conviction but open-mindedness. Until other workers are able to duplicate what Dr. Adler hoped he had accomplished, his results cannot be accepted as definite...
...informed, despite the fact that a number of scientists in various parts of the world have attempted to confirm Dr. Adler's work, only one man feels that he possibly has done so -a French worker, Dr. Etienne Burnet...
...Weak Link (by Allen Wood: produced by Chester Erskin in association with Philip Adler) is a farce-melodrama as lighthearted as Tiny Tim, and as lame. It concerns a young man who can spot the weak link in every crime. Offering his services to a "Bankers' Protective Association" to help prevent robberies, he finds himself among crooks, is forced to help commit them...
...Adler-Simon and Schuster...