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...Molecule. At 23, Albert did a brilliant paper on something called "non-typical Wurmer-Klaus reactions" and was invited to join a chemistry-research department at Oxford. There he went to work for F. R. Dibdin, a revered character who wandered around in a cloud of pipesmoke and portentous cliches, occasionally avoiding difficult questions by sidling off to the lavatory. Scientist Albert told his diary: "Dr. Dibdin ... is a wonderfully inspired leader ... He will give Woods the discipline he needs...
...faculty, Albert lost his head. When somebody questioned a point in a paper he was reading, he called the man "daft," and went on blustering long after he was proved wrong. The fellowship he was seeking went to another man. Albert blamed the setback on treachery, and concluded that Dibdin didn't "know one end of a molecule from the other...
...STEAMER BOOK-Compiled by Edwin Valentine Mitchell-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). A snack of Stevenson, a morsel of Melville, a tidbit of Dibdin, a fact or two about navigation and (for convalescence) one or two very short stories by Hawthorne, Daudet and compeers. In meagre fashion and with no lavish excess of ingenuity in arrangement, all tastes are catered to. There is a scientifico-detective story. There are lines from Lord Tennyson...
English--Unknown, "The Three Ravens"; Purcell, 1658-1695, "I'll Sail upon the Dog-Star"; Arne, 1710-1778, "Plague of Love"; Dibdin, 1745-1814, "Tom Bowling...