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...Douglas (now Ambassador to Great Britain), and Mrs. Douglas. Arriving in New York, they introduced McCloy to Mrs. Douglas' sister, Ellen Zinsser. McCloy liked Ellen, and liked the Zinsser home at Hastings-on-Hudson. Her father, Frederick, a chemist, was a brother of Harvard's famed Bacteriologist Hans (Rats, Lice and History) Zinsser. Although the elder Zinssers were U.S.-born, the Zinsser family had a German-American flavor of stability, culture and family affection...
Robert A. Nelson, a young (26) Johns Hopkins bacteriologist, and his co-workers have taken the first steps toward developing a more accurate test than the Wassermann. In the blood of syphilitics, they found specific antibodies (counter-substances) against Treponema pallidum, the spirochete that causes syphilis. Announcement of their discovery caused a stir last week at a symposium held in Washington by the American Venereal Disease Association and the U.S. Public Health Service...
Died. Dr. John Elmer Weeks, 95, internationally known ophthalmologist and discoverer (with German Bacteriologist Robert Koch) of the bacillus which causes acute contagious conjunctivitis (pinkeye); in La Jolla, Calif...
...fortnight for Dr. Atlas, who is 27 and now head of the war on colds at Bethesda. The week before the MRi announcement, he married blonde Bacteriologist Maxine McCall, who worked with him in the experiments. Dr. Atlas, who used to catch a cold every two weeks until he started wearing a special face mask while making tests, headed south with his bride for what he hoped would be a cold-free honeymoon...
Died. Hedwig Pinkus Ehrlich, 84, tiny, unassuming wife of the late great German bacteriologist Dr. Paul Ehrlich, whose discovery of salvarsan or 606 ("The Magic Bullet") was a major landmark in combating syphilis; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Frau Ehrlich fled Germany...