Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Columnist-Crusader Albert Deutsch of the New York Post raised a hue & cry against the dangers of DDT, with a series of articles called "DDT and You." Deutsch based his original assertions on research by Manhattan's Dr. Morton Biskind, printed in The American Journal of Digestive Diseases. Deutsch contended that the mysterious ailment called virus X, which rose to epidemic proportions in Los Angeles about two years ago, has the same symptoms as DDT poisoning and may be traced to indiscriminate use of the chemical. X disease, which has attacked herds of cattle in 37 states...
...Medical School; George E. Erikson, instructor in Anatomy at the Medical School; Bernice G. Schubert, instructor in Botany; Richard D. Ellman, assistant professor of English Composition; Jean-Joseph Seznec, professor of French and Spanish; Edgar B. Wilson, Jr., professor of Chemistry; George W. Mackey, associate professor of Mathematics; Albert B. Lord, teaching fellow in Slavic; and Morton G. White, assistant professor of Philosophy...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Albert William Stevens, 63, holder of the world's altitude record for manned balloons; after long illness; in Redwood City, Calif. A top-notch aerial photographer, Colonel Stevens took the first photograph showing laterally the earth's curvature (1930) and the first pictures showing the moon's shadow on the earth during a total eclipse (1932), went to 72,395 feet in a balloon on Nov. 11, 1935 (with Captain Orvil Anderson) to set a substratosphere record...
...little over half way through this Universal Production, James Stewart and Eddie Albert crash their cargo plane in a southwestern wilderness. While Joan Fontaine consoles a distraught monkey in one end of the plane and an escaped embezzler lies petrified in the other, Albert informs Stewart, "You don't look very happy." Stewart and the Astor audience, had nothing to be happy about at that point or at any other in the movie...
...other five speakers were David F. Wheeler '47, who recited three poems of William Butler Yeats; Albert Feldman '48, who gave James Russell Lowell's Oration on the 250th Anniversary of Harvard; James B. Hompe '50, who delivered an address by Samuel Adams on American Independence; David S. Nicholl '45, who recited Browning's "Andreadel Sarto"; and John J. Trudon III '51, who gave Winston Churchill's address to the French people of October...