Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zymohexase. A new way of detecting cancer in laboratory animals was reported by Drs. John A. Sibley and Albert L. Lehninger of the University of Chicago. They found that whenever an active tumor is present, the blood contains an abnormally large amount of an enzyme called zymohexase; when the tumor is removed, the amount of zymohexase returns to normal. Some day, they thought, the test might be valuable for detecting human cancer...
...script. Its thesis: "The love life of the worm is an evasion of the human problem. Human sex should be taught honestly and scientifically." He tried his script on other scientists and educators, then submitted it to nine Hollywood producers. A documentary firm run by Actor Eddie (Brother Rat) Albert...
Oregon had wanted to use professional child actors, but Eddie Albert was convinced that amateurs would do better. He sold the idea to the principal of Emerson Junior High in West Los Angeles, picked students there to act the part of questioning schoolkids. Two Emerson youngsters -George Enoch, 13, and Josie Kegley, 12 -were "starred." Albert hired three professional actors to play the teacher, father and mother...
...Late. Telling testimony came from Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose report on his visit to China last summer is still under lock & key at the State Department. Two years ago, said Wedemeyer, economic help might have been enough for China. "Today, it's too late. ... I wouldn't send $200 million to China unless I sent military aid to protect it. ... We must think in terms of blood as well as treasure. ... If we don't take appropriate steps, we are going to pay in blood. I don't think dollars alone will stop...
...very well to say that Mark Hopkins could teach on the end of a log: his subject was moral philosophy. His brother Albert, who was a scientist, needed a laboratory. In the century since the Hopkins brothers, education has rolled off the log and become one of the nation's biggest industries; though it has spent millions on its factories it needs two billion dollars more. Where will the money come from...