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...Loeb, a chemist who did important work himself, died in 1913 and left his estate to his wife in the form of an annuity, the principal of which would go to Harvard upon her death...
...interferes with his concentration on details. Chemistry 2 alumni still talk of the day that he forgot to put a sheet of asbestos under a plate of white phosphorus. When the phosphorus ignited, Nash had to dash from the room with the flaming mass before it spread over Malinckrodt. Chemist Nash grumbles that "if things possibly can go wrong, they do go wrong precisely when they can do the most harm...
...British Medical Journal. The B.MJ. had recently pontificated that "spinach would seem to be particularly valuable for the nutrition of children, provided they can be persuaded to acquire a liking for its somewhat bitter taste." Not so, snapped back a London husband & wife team, Physician Joan E. Bamji and Chemist Nariman S. Bamji:' the stuff has too much oxalic acid...
Says Eugene Segal, part-time correspondent in Cleveland: "A reporter's illusion that he is a pro, doing a kind of work that requires long practice and highly specialized skill, is deflated when his wife fills in for him during his busy periods. Mine was a chemist and nutritionist. Now she raises children, runs a big household, designs clothes, manages money like a corporation comptroller, and organizes recreational activities at a junior high school ... I keep finding out that there's no end to that woman's resourcefulness when I call on her to serve...
...Remedy. Swiss-born Jacob Schweppe first began making soda water in his Bristol chemist's shop in 1794. Quinine water, which Schweppes concocted in the 1860s, so appealed to British taste that by 1903 Schweppes had factories all over the empire. World War II cut off sugar supplies and stopped production; when the factories started up again in 1948, sugar rationing kept sales flat...