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LUCY CROWN (339 pp.)-Irwin Shaw -Random House...
...Oliver to blame for it all be cause he treats his Hartford, Conn, printing plant as a religion and his wife as a hobby? For the answers to these and many other related questions, tune in to Lucy Crown, a bit of fictional hokey-pokey in 21 chapters by Irwin Shaw...
...development of PAM (2-pyridine al-doxime methiodide) was the unplanned result of basic research. First, Columbia's Dr. David Nachmansohn showed that the enzyme cholinesterase (one of the body's catalysts) is essential for the transmission of nerve impulses. Trying to learn more about cholinesterase, Biochemist Irwin B. Wilson discovered that nerve gases (and certain insecticides) cause death by adding to the nerve cell's cholinesterase something that damages it. The something is a phosphoryl that destroys the nerves' ability to transmit impulses to muscles...
...Rustler. In Omaha, police looked for the man who rang Irwin Chapman's doorbell, pointed a pistol at him, growled, "I want that," made off with his son's rocking horse...
Died. Lieut. General (ret.) Stafford LeRoy ("Red") Irwin, 62. onetime (1950-52) commander of U.S. forces in Austria, commander of the 5th Division, which formed the southern arc of the pincer that captured the French city. Metz, in World War II; of a coronary occlusion; in Asheville...