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...Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute may possibly some day take rank, along with Gerhard Domagk of Germany and other pioneers who gave the world sulfanilamide. as a great benefactor of chemotherapeutical medicine. Starting with a hunch that there must be agents in the soil capable of breaking up almost anything organic, piling up experiments year after year. Dr. Dubos recently told how he isolated from soil bacilli a substance called "gramicidin," which-in experimental animals-kills pneumococci of five kinds, streptococci, diphtheria bacilli, and other "gram-positive" (blue-staining) germs, possibly including the tubercle bacillus (TIME, April...
...acres near Sosua, in the north, which has already been improved to the extent of 24 dwellings, a reservoir, 4,950 acres of cultivated pasture land and abundant timber. All this was donated by none other than General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, former President of the Dominican Republic, now dubbed "Benefactor of the Fatherland." Benefactor Trujillo, whose word is still law in the Republic, personally guaranteed the contract; and in a letter to President James N. Rosenberg of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association he maintained that the immigrants would "stimulate the progress of our country," suggested an agricultural bank to help...
Considering the fact that General Trujillo's local record has not always been regarded as that of a humanitarian, many a refugee official raised a skeptical eyebrow when the Benefactor first offered to take the refugees in. But the contract he agreed to was a model of liberality...
Nonfictional but equally conscientious Boston Brahmins have indeed made Boston's Museum of Fine Arts one of the world's great repositories of Oriental art, given it distinction in many another field. But no benefactor happened to hit on medieval art. Last spring the museum drew polite attention to this deficiency by adding to its staff white-haired, pink-cheeked, enthusiastic Dr. Georg Swarzenski, Nazi refugee and a top-notch authority on the Middle Ages. Last week Bostonians who floundered through Fenway snowdrifts to the museum found there the finest loan exhibition of medieval art ever assembled...
Edward S. Harkness, Harvard's greatest benefactor, who donated money for the House systems here and at Yale, died suddenly Monday night. University officials yesterday expressed deep great at the death of the unassuming philanthropist, who had done so much for education here and throughout the country...