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...correctly diagnosing the Design School's ailments for two years now, but all of the many panaceas prescribed depend upon a forceful dean to administer them. We have suggested that Design needs a conservative dean, who will first tie the loose threads of his three divisions into a tight knot, then meticulously begin the process of raising endowments. The school must also have an academic pioneer on its faculty, an artistic inventor who will initiate new theories of design and unique courses of education. Perhaps, there is a man who fits both sets of characteristics; but the University has searched...
...synthesized insulin; he has only charted its structure. The importance of this work is that other chemists may now chart other proteins, find out whether certain groupings of amino acids in their molecules confer certain vital properties. Eventually, for instance, they may find that a small knot of amino acids makes a protein drug, like insulin, act as it does in the human body. Then perhaps a superior insulin substitute can be synthesized...
...kind of dramatic show last week. For 15 hours and 50 minutes, a camera boat followed Florence Chadwick (first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions) in her course across the choppy 21-mile Catalina channel off San Pedro, Calif. Finally, cold, exhausted and bucking a four-knot current, she signaled her helpers to pull her into the boat less than a mile from shore...
Choppy waters and 15-knot quartering winds delayed the starts of the freshman and junior varsity races. But when they were finally run off, the flashing blue & gold oars of the Navy shells crossed the finish line first. The Navy plebes broke the two-mile course record by more than half a minute. The Navy junior varsity missed the three-mile varsity record by only 6.3 seconds. Then it was up to the varsity, stroked by lanky (6 ft. 2 in., 178 lbs.) Sophomore Ed Stevens, to duplicate the "sweep of the river" achieved only by the West Coast...
...ship, although the airlines, helped by their new tourist rates, will carry almost as many. Like the planes, tourist space on the stately Queens, the elegant Ile de France, the Independence, Constitution, and all the other liners, is sold out till September. By midsummer, France will add her 23-knot, 20,300-ton Flandre to the transatlantic fleet, and Holland will put her 15,000-ton, 875-passenger Maasdam into service. But the prize of the new ships is the United States Lines' new superliner United States, the biggest passenger ship ever built in the U.S., and the third...