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Familiar Faces. For nearly 30 minutes last week a procession of black and multicolored robes filed across the "front campus" before famed old Nassau Hall. There, 6,000 spectators, seated in shadows under Princeton's elms ("An adorable place, is it not?" Woodrow Wilson used to say), cheered whenever...
Died. Maxwell Evarts Perkins, 62, editor of Publishers Charles Scribner's Sons, discoverer and literary nurse of such notables as Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erskine Caldwell, Ring Lardner, John P. Marquand; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. In You Can't Go Home Again, the late Thomas Wolfe...
Woodward, who made the headlines back in 1944 as co-discoverer of artificial synthesis of quinine, is now the first to synthesize a substance with the same molecular structure as fibrous proteins. This is the basic stuff of all forms of animal life.
Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association hurried to press a cautious, "preliminary" report by Dr. Wirtschafter and the treatment's co-discoverer, Dr. Rudolph Widmann. The detail that had roused the medical profession was that the treatment seemed to be something more than a possible cure...
Hirshfield also had a high regard for his own work. He painted ten hours a day, every day. His work was as doggedly patterned as herringbone cloth. He never used a model for his nudes, explaining that at his age he "couldn't very well bring a nude woman...