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Sergeant Shapiro, who before the war was a chemist for a New Jersey flavoring-extract firm, has already brewed 50,000 cc. of the poison-ivy inoculant-enough for half a million injections. But the extract is not his invention. It was developed by Colonel Sanford Williams French, a longtime Army doctor who commands the medical branch of the Fourth Service Command. French, one of the 40% of mankind who are relatively immune to poison ivy, can safely gather the plant barehanded. Sergeant Shapiro cannot. Paradoxically, he is one of the few individuals on whom the poison-ivy extract will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison-Ivy Cure | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...minute weekly series has featured such German refugees and German-Americans as: Wilhelm Sollman, onetime Minister of the Interior in Stresemann's Cabinet; Dr. Eric Stoetzner, ex-managing editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung; Chemist Dr. Werner Leszynski; Dr. William Dickman, former German magistrate; Dr. A. E. Zucker, professor of modern languages at the University of Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A German Told Us | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...simplest device of all consists only of a beer can filled with absorbent material and a clothespin to clamp on the nose. It is approved by no one except its inventor, Chemist Vernon Bowers of Baltimore, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Homemade Gas Masks | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

When Jim Conant, a Dorchester engraver's son, was picked as Harvard's president in 1933, Harvard men wondered whether he would prove as good an executive as he was a chemist. Last week they were ready to admit that he had proved even better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Conant's Arsenal | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...Chemist, Physicist, Speculator. Shy, high-strung James Conant, 49, made his reputation as a first-rate organic chemist before Harvard named him president in 1933. In World War I, as a major in the chemical-warfare division, he closeted himself in an old auto factory near Cleveland to perfect deadly Lewisite gas. A firm believer in free academic research, he early spotted the Hitler menace, urged U.S. entry into the war long before Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Men on a Bench | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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