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Maugham wrote his bestseller during the era of the not-quite-emancipated woman-a time when literary convention prescribed, as the natural consequence of adultery, a cholera epidemic. In The Seventh Sin the epidemic is caused by an American girl (Eleanor Parker) married to a British bacteriologist (Bill Travers) but carrying on with a French business man (Jean Pierre Aumont) in Hong Kong. When her husband finds out, he (of course) packs her off posthaste to the nearest outbreak of cholera. Her character immediately begins to improve. The local white trash (George Sanders) philosophically assures her that Schnapps...
Died. Dr. Thorvald Madsen, 87, Danish bacteriologist, President (1921-40) of the League of Nations' Health Committee and Commission on Biological Standardization and a leader in world efforts to standardize serums and vaccines; in Copenhagen...
...trim little (5 ft. 4 in.) woman doctor named Alice Hamilton was living only five miles away in Hull House. Indiana-bred, raised in ease, and educated at Miss Porter's famed school at Farmington, Conn., Alice Hamilton was working at the turn of the century as a bacteriologist by day but did settlement work by night and on weekends. Thus she met countless victims of industrial hazards and eventually became the founder of industrial medicine...
John F. Enders, Nobel Prizewinning bacteriologist D.Sc...
...Zinsser & Co., chemical manufacturing firm; in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y. Among his noted relatives : his daughters, Ellen, wife of former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy, and Peggy, wife of former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Lewis Douglas; his brother, the late Bacteriologist-Author Hans (Rats, Lice and History) Zinsser...