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¶ Dr. Selman A. Waksman, streptomycin's discoverer, produced a sister drug named grisein from the same soil organism. Grisein's job: to knock out (with the help of streptomycin) bacteria that develop a resistance to streptomycin alone.
Press Parasite. When he came to Washington, the British Embassy was impregnable to U.S.-reporters. Today, six Ambassadors and 26 years later, its doors are open to them, and they know whom to thank for it. Lewis regarded himself as a guestly parasite on the American press, read it with...
Fireside globe-trotters are likely to find boundless pleasure in this collection which Editor-Explorer Stefansson calls "an outline history of the world, told by its chief discoverers from Pytheas (Greek discoverer of Iceland and ancient Britain) to Peary (who discovered the North Pole)."
Town & Country, which claims to be the U.S. discoverer of Ludwig Bemelmans. Evelyn Waugh, Henry Miller and Oliver St. John Gogarty, is now alone in the once-crowded field that held Vanity Fair, Spur, Horse & Horsemen, Country Life and the Sportsman. It has survived by getting under Hearst's...
Is penicillin a drug or an argument? Doctors have been awed and appalled by a gusher of argumentative books and reports claiming that 1) penicillin will cure almost anything; 2) its victories have been only temporary because the bugs are fighting back. Out this week came still another. This one...