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According to the theory of immunity proposed by the great Paul ("Magic Bullet") Ehrlich, when foreign proteins enter the body, they try to enter into harmful chemical union with body cells. The cells sprout invisible, mysterious little things called antibodies which act as chemical grappling hooks. When an invading protein seizes a hook, the cell gets rid of its eneny by loosing the hook. If there are not enough hooks to cope with the invaders, the person falls...
Reader Walter Richert in a letter to TIME, Nov. 18, satirized the suggestion made by Mrs. Foster in the Oct. 28 issue, that every German should be sterilized. Among others, he mentioned sardonically such men as Einstein and his Relativity Theory and Ehrlich and his ''Magic Bullet." For Reader Richert's edification, Einstein and Ehrlich and other great Jews are not considered Germans according to Nazi standards. They are "non-Aryan" and possess inferior blood. Their names should nob be mentioned in Nazi circles except for shame and degradation and their achievements are meaningless because they...
...Quantum Theory of Planck, the Wave Mechanics of Heisenberg. Out with Kekule's theory of molecular structure, Helmholtz's electrodynamics, the chemistry of aniline dyes, etc. Out with microscopes, telescopes, cameras, and other instruments requiring lenses, perfected in Germany, fundamentally of course for military usage. Out with Ehrlich's "Magic Bullet," Mendel's laws of heredity. Finally, but not until our program has been completed, out with the sterilization of innocent peoples...
...Richard Ehrlich '41, of Winthrop House and Ridgefield, Connecticut...
Edward G. Robinson, whose portrait of German Scientist Ehrlich entrenched him in the field of cinema biography, growls pleasantly through Reuter's tribulations. He has to buck the artistic irresponsibility of his poet-partner Max (Eddie Albert) and the indifference of rubber-skinned bankers before he proves that pigeons can pack the news from Brussels to Aachen quicker than the fleetest stagecoach...