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Edward R. Bacon Art Scholarship (for 1937-38 and 1938-39; $1,400 each year) for the study of painting, preferably in Europe, to Albert C. Koch, Jr. 3GSD, of Cambridge, Mass
...month ago a fast-talking, song-publishing (Isle of Capri, Serenade in the Night) Belgian named Peter Maurice Jacques Koch de Gooreynd arrived in Manhattan with a box full of Imperial Chemical's Perspex lenses. He immediately hired a publicity man and a Waldorf-Astoria suite, where he bounced lenses on the table, declared that he could sell eyeglasses for $1 or so a pair, binoculars for $2.50, cameras...
...last week were Professor Frederick George Novy, 71, of the University of Michigan, and President Edward Bausch, 81, of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. To Septuagenarian Dr. Novy, only living U. S. bacteriologist who studied under Pasteur (1822-95), one of the few living who studied under Koch (1843-1910), prototype of benign and learned Dr. Gottlieb in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, Octogenarian Mr. Bausch, who still designs new optical devices, last week gave a newly completed microscope, 250,000th built by Bausch & Lomb during 60 years of manufacturing microscopes. Dr. Novy, however, will not use the microscope...
...first germs ever noted. As microscopes were improved more kinds of animalcula were observed, and doctors gradually associated them with disease. But not until 1876 was a germ proved to be a cause of a disease. The disease: anthrax in cattle. The germ: Bacillus anthracis. The discoverer: Robert Koch...
...Park the Roosevelt Medal for 1935 next October because, by introducing diphtheria antitoxin to this country, he reduced diphtheria deaths among New York City children from 295 to three per 100,000; because his laboratory was the first in the world to apply the discoveries of Pasteur and Koch to public health; because for 41 years he managed to keep his laboratory out of the hands of New York City politicians...