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...German Autobuilder Karl Benz's tiny plant one day in 1902 came Austria-Hungary's wealthy Consul General Emile Jellinek. He promised to order 30 of Benz's famous racers to enter in the Nice road race "if you'll name them for my daughter Mercedes." Consul Jellinek got his cars (they won the first 30 places in the race) and his daughter Mercedes' name became a world-famous symbol of automotive quality and speed...
...address will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birthday of George Jellinek, a German jurist. Jellinek was professor of Law at Heidelberg for several years before his death there in 1911. He also was the author of several books on jurisprudence...
Because there is no real cure for alcoholism (a reformed drunkard is never more than one drink from disaster), Yale's alcohol researchers have concentrated on prevention. Last week Dr. Elvin M. Jellinek, the bustling director of their studies, reported a little progress: his investigators had discovered how to spot an incipient alcoholic. A drinker who 1) gulps his drinks, 2) sneaks a few on the side, 3) worries about his liquor consumption, 4) stops talking about his drinking, 5) begins to "pull blanks" (i.e., forgets what happened during his bouts) is likely to become a hopeless drunk within...
...school is an outgrowth of Dr. Haggard's Laboratory of Applied Physiology and his Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Teamed with him in all three is Physiologist Elvin Morton Jellinek. Says Dr. Haggard: "This school is not financed by liquor interests nor by the drys, but out of the regular Laboratory research funds." The curriculum will include: physiology national and class liquor attitudes and practices; traffic problems; relations of personality to alcohol; suicide; crime; heredity; temperance movements; social control; legislation; church strategy...
...delirium tremens fatal? Does whiskey drinking cause cirrhosis of the liver? Will too much liquor cause insanity? These and other fascinating questions are answered in Alcohol Explored (Doubleday, Doran; $2.75), a new popular book published last fortnight by famed Yale Physiologists Howard Wilcox Haggard, Elvin Morton Jellinek. Highlights...