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Although the heart eventually ceased functioning, the project was a success in that it showed that lowering the freezing point of organs even further might allow them to be kept almost indefinitely, according to Dr. Samuel W. Jacob, instructor in Surgery and part of the research team. If a way to transplant tissues permanently is discovered this finding will be invaluable...
Richard M. Koch '61, of Kirkland House and Haven, Kan., has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship, Dean Von Stade announced recently. The prize is given annually to the sophomore judged the most promising scholar of his class. A dinner for the recipient, attended by former Wendell Scholars, is held in Boston each year by the Wendell family...
...skillfully did Lyndon Johnson handle his fight for his own version of Rule XXII that the final 72-22 vote left only the extreme diehards of both the liberal and Southern sides in opposition. Thus such liberals as New York Republican Jacob Javits arid Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas found themselves isolated with such bitter-end Southerners as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Mississippi's James Eastland...
...Main reason: virtually certain Oscar nomination this year of The Defiant Ones. One of its coauthors was Nathan E. Douglas, who in 1953 pleaded the Fifth under his legal name of Ned Young during a House hearing. While Douglas-Young was thus ineligible for an Oscar. Co-Author Harold Jacob Smith had no such record. After a heated debate, the academy voted to leave blacklisting solely to producers: "The proper functioning of the academy is only to honor achievement...
...that some of the external plushery was intentionally put in for an ironic contrast with the agonized struggle between Hamlet and Claudius. But the struggle never seems really agonized, and much of the plushery simply gets in the way. Gordon Jacob's music, for instance, is too much and too pretty--it was not a good idea to use a harp in the ghost music. The Play Scene, for another instance, ends in a very ecstasy of lighting and musical effects which succeed in diverting attention from what is actually going on: you can't see the forest...