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...Henry Moulton (H) defeated John Ten Barge (B) 6-0, 6-3; Bill Magleas (H) defeated Dean Staats (B) 10-8, 6-1; Fred Pratt (H) defeated Hugh Savage (B) 6-3, 6-0; Julian Hatton (H) defeated Eliot Salter (B) 7-5, 6-4; Ivor Littlefield (B) defeated Albic Marks...
These remarkable results were obtained by a man who is not a doctor. He is Corporal Ivor Cornman, 28, who was studying at the University of Michigan for a Ph.D. when he joined the Army in 1942. His experiment was done on a 45-day furlough at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. Says Corporal Cornman in this week's Science: "'[These studies] have revealed a selective lethal effect of penicillin upon rat and mouse sarcoma cells, of which a full account will be published later...
Though well done, your story on Ivor Richards' new book (TIME, Aug. 16) is all too short to give TIME readers a well rounded picture of Basic English...
...book giving serious arguments for a system of simple English as a common language among all nations has been put out by Ivor Armstrong Richards, head of Harvard's Commission on English Language Studies. Basic English and Its Uses (Norton; $2) says that the greatest number of arguments against this simple language do not commonly come from persons fearing Anglo-Saxon expansion but from supporters of languages that are not natural, such as Esperanto...
Valley of Death. In a dried-up river gulch yellow-haired Sergeant Ivor Andrews watched 17 German tanks file up a slope, let the first four go by towards another gun crew, knocked out the next three. When Belden visited the battlefield after it was all over, he counted 52 German tanks left on the arid, rock-strewn plain between the Matmata Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. Some were blackened from fire, some were still splotched with green camouflage and black crosses. Turrets were torn off, fronts were blown in. They were casualties of Rommel's most earnest attempt...