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...Public Health Service, busy searching for a cure for mumps, last week reported a dividend: a vaccine, highly successful in immunizing monkeys, and now being tested with human volunteers. The vaccine uses virus from mumps convalescents; the virus is first cultured in chick embryos, then killed by ether or ultraviolet irradiation...
...ideal programs. Atypical weekly bill at the U.T. includes two separate show, usually double features, of three days' duration each, Review Day on Wednesday, and a Children's Movie at at 10 A.M. Saturday morning (Roy Rogers and Trigger in "Song of Arizona," and Chapter 13 of "Chick Carter, Detective" are featured this week). Because of booking arrangements, most of the U.T.'s pictures reach its screen 28 or more days after concluding their run at the Met or other downtown Boston theatres...
However, the article failed to mention that he also has had a few of his former stars "stolen"-Julius Rykovich, regular halfback on the '43 national championship team; Chick Magglioli, another halfback; Bill Huber, end . . . -all going to Illinois...
...scientific writer asserts that Goodpasture's development of viruses in chick embryo-which opened the way for large-scale production of vaccines against fowlpox, smallpox, yellow fever, influenza and typhus fever-is "comparable to ... Louis Pasteur's proof of the germ theory." Another has said that he "richly deserved" a Nobel prize. Last week Dr. Goodpasture, pathologist of Nashville's Vanderbilt University, got a prize-the 1946 Passano Foundation* award ($5,000 cash) for the advancement of medical research...
...Chick & the Egg. What Ernest Goodpasture has done is to devise a means of propagating large quantities of pure virus-the poison (uncontaminated by bacteria) which produces disease. Scientists had never been able to get enough pure virus for their experiments because viruses, unlike bacteria, demand live tissue; they will not multiply in artificial culture media...