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...last week looked like an endless skein of white rubber band. Actually, he explained happily, it was 100 ft. of rare tapeworm which he found in the intestine of a whale captured off Catalina Island. Although his specialization is the dwarf mouse tapeworm, a common human parasite, Dr. Donald Heyneman, 32, of the University of California at Los Angeles, finds all tapeworms fascinating. He hates to pass up a chance to find a new species, for the surface of tape-wormology has hardly been scratched...
...Heyneman studies all the variations of tapeworm life, but most of his professional time goes to Hymenolepsis nana, the dwarf mouse tapeworm that infects between 1% and 2% of the population of U.S. Southern states. Its intermediate host is the flour beetle, which may be ground with grain and eaten by humans. It can also be carried to man by mouse droppings that get into the food. A person infected by H. nana soon develops immunity, ejects the established worms and does not acquire new ones for several years at least. Dr. Heyneman hopes to discover the mechanism of this...
Those who graduated in March are: James Keeley Brown '50; Richard Wellman Brown '50; Joseph William Gibson '49; Donald Heyneman '46; Robert Errant Kohn '49; Hilton James Landry '50; and Kenneth Melvin Gregory Lewan...
...Heyneman followed him to Massachusetts Avenue and, falling behind, commandeered a passing Cadillac to pursue the stranger. Heyneman and the Caddy streaked after the prowler, who escaped into the night just before reaching Harvard Street...
...three men leaped on the prowler, while Heyneman applied the poker. Coat and glasses were confiscated, but the prowler, described as being 5 feet, 10 inches and "at least 200 pounds" was too much for his captors...