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Last week, for their obscure work in cryptic processes of vast practical importance to medicine, Biochemists Lipmann (54) and Krebs (53) won fame and rich reward. They were picked to receive the 1953 Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology and share...
...discussion of "An English Benedict Arnold-George Monk" for a special announcement: "Before I begin this week's broadcast I wish to convey to my listeners the desire to obtain two statues of Virginia Revolutionary statesmen and heroes that would fit into alcoves six feet high." Behind his cryptic appeal was a plan to embellish the wall of the "Nathan Hale Court," which fronts the Tribune Building. Within the week a factory offered to make plaster statues of any historical figures the colonel cared to name, but that wouldn't do. He was after the weather-resistant kind...
...foreign ambassador in Moscow concluded a recent dispatch to his government with the cryptic sentence: "The story of Stalin's death has not yet been written." The Russian experts of two other nations (both of whom served tours of duty in Moscow) have pieced together estimates of the situation which agree remarkably well, though arrived at independently. Their interpretation: ¶ That Stalin last fall became worried by slackness in the Soviet leadership, which accounts for the fervent denunciation of nepotism, inefficiency and mismanagement at the null Party Congress in October...
When Dwight Eisenhower came home from Korea he said that "certain [military] problems of supply have reached rather serious proportions and require early correction." New and indirect light was thrown on this cryptic statement last week. Pentagon reporters were summoned to a special press conference by the Army's Major General William Oliver Reeder, deputy assistant chief of staff for logistics (G-4). Ostensibly, the conference was called to discuss a "1952 Procurement Report." But reporters soon detected the real reason for the conference. Army's G-4 knew that Ike had come upon a carefully protected secret...
Several months later, after changing his request for an immigration visa to a visitor's permit, Polanyi get the final cryptic refusal...