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Just a year ago, two doctors announced that they had isolated a virus which causes one type of common cold (TIME, Jan. 5). It was a good start, but there was a lot of slow work ahead. Drs. Norman H. Topping and Leon T. Atlas, at the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., had to keep testing their virus, called MR-I,* on human volunteers. They put the virus, kept alive in fertilized chicken eggs, into the noses of inmates of District...
Columbia's Lorton Reformatory, then had to wait and see if the volunteers developed the expected thick "sinusitis-like" type of cold. Dr. Atlas and Biochemist George A. Hottle started looking for a way to speed up the testing process. Finally, in last week's issue of Science, they reported success...
After trying "more things than you can shake a stick at," Drs. Atlas and Hottle found that tryptophane (an amino acid) and perchloric acid changed the color of a solution if the virus was present. The color deepened from pinkish brown to dark brown according to the quantity of virus present; if there was no virus, the solution stayed clear. The exact strength of the virus can be fixed by using a spectrophotometer, which measures color by comparing it with a standard. The researchers have been able to make as many as 112 tests a day; normally they...
Denis Compton is a British cricketer and a friend of Freddie's. But in the atlas of British sports-South African edition, at least-cricket and pugilism are as far removed as Capetown and Lord's, home pitch of London's swank Marylebone Cricket Club. Last week, as Freddie fought his fight in Johannesburg, Denis-in Capetown to play with the M.C.C. team against South Africa's Western Province Cricket Club-invited him to drop in at Newland's Cricket Pavilion...
...reserved for God Himself. Said he: "We ought to give up ... every thought that the care of the Church, the care of the world, is our care . . . For just this is the final root and ground of all human disorder; the dreadful, godless, ridiculous opinion that man is the Atlas who is destined to bear the dome of heaven upon his shoulders...