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...thousands of C.O.s (including Cinemactor Lew Ayres) to noncombatant service in the Army (Class 1-A-O), 8,426 to Civilian Public Service camps and special service projects (to do "work of national importance under civilian direction"[Class 4-E]), and some 5,000 to prison (including penicillin-research chemist Donald Charles DeVault, who refused to do the work assigned to him in a C.O. camp...
...Huxley, Royal Academician Sir Robert Robinson. England would have sent more but for Winston Churchill's last-minute refusal to grant exit visas to some ten men engaged in war research. From the U.S. came 16, including Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Chemist Irving Langmuir...
During the ensuing years, while other endocrines yielded up their secrets to the "hormone hunters," study of the male hormone languished. Pioneers who dared to experiment in the field drew sneers & jeers at "rejuvenations," "elixirs" and "monkey glands." But in 1926 University of Chicago Chemist Fred Koch and his assistant Lemuel McGee began dissolving, fractionating and distilling tons of bulls' testicles in an attempt to discover what it is that makes bulls bulls. They developed a method for obtaining from some 40 Ibs. of bull glands 20 milligrams of a substance which, when injected into capons, restored them...
...Chemist Raymond Davis Cady, of Diamond Match Co., finally found the answer. It looks like an ordinary kitchen match, but it is coated with a chemical (formula: still secret) which sheds water. Diamond is now producing 10,000,000 a day and G.I.s in water-filled foxholes have found them a godsend. Even after an eight-hour soaking, the match lights readily...
...Board, chosen by President Frank B. Jewett of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the Army & Navy, is composed of 40 scientists, half civilians, half Army & Navy men. Its head: Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T. Other members of the executive committee: Chemist Roger Adams, of the University of Illinois; Alphonse R. Dochez, of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Brigadier General William A. Borden, director of the Army's New Developments Division; Rear Admiral Julius A. Furer, the Navy's coordinator of research...