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Both Sir Alexander Fleming and the penicillin he discovered have recently come in for some unkind words. In Britain, critics complain that Fleming got a bigger share than he deserved of the credit for penicillin-that more should have gone to Sir Howard Florey and Dr. Ernst Chain, who first took it out of the lab and put it into a patient. In the U.S., doctors say that strains of bacteria resistant to penicillin are emerging everywhere, and that these may breed diseases from which penicillin can give no relief...
Also, McCarthy has set his own wierd rules of proof. Theodore Kaghan, Deputy Director of Public Affairs in Germany, gave, in evidence of his political purity, character references from former anti-Communist Chancellor of Austria, Leopold Figl, Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter, and Geoffrey Keyes, ex-High Commissioner of Austria. Balancing against these references some lines in Kaghan's plays, written around 1930, and the fact that he roomed from 1935 to '40 with a suspected Communist, McCarthy has demanded more testimony...
...Ernst Mayr has been appointed professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Agassiz Professor of Zoology, it was announced yesterday...
Concordia and Missouri Synod Lutheranism grew and prospered with the times, but they never let go of the stern Reformation theology of their founding fathers. Under the leadership of Ottomar's theologian son, Dr. Ludwig Ernst Fuerbringer, who died in 1947, Concordia's serious-minded seminarians continued to master both Hebrew and Greek. Almost as intensively as their work in Bible, Concordia's students study The Book of Concord of 1580, in which their church's doctrines are explicitly set forth. Added to courses in history, philosophy and pastoral care, this kind of work leaves little...
...which was a victory for the Socialists. But the rightists in the People's Party also won, for Figl was out as Chancellor, and in his place was a blunt, tough-talking engineer, Julius Raab, a right-winger. Raab, 61, was a charter member of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's private fascist army back in the late '20s; in 1930 he took the famous Heimwehr oath, ". . . We reject the democratic western Parliament . . ."; in 1938 he served briefly in the pro-Nazi cabinet appointed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to appease Hitler, and took...