Word: krueger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Bacteriologist Albert Paul Krueger of the University of California elaborated a recent announcement of a discovery concerning bacteriophage, the mysterious bacteria-destroying substance which has had a stormy medical history in the 22 years since it first came to light. Bacteriophage-"phage" for short-was discovered during the War by a British medical officer named Frederick William Twort, who was preparing vaccines. When he stained one of his germ colonies he found nothing but the wreckage of dead bacteria. Whatever it was that killed them was able to pass in solution through a fine filter and then infect...
...those who took the position that phage was not alive was Albert Paul Krueger, who began studying the mysterious killer as a medical student at Stanford. For two years he continued his research at the Rockefeller Institute, went on to the University of California. He discovered a phage of staphylococci (pus germs), showed that its inactivation by heat followed the same course as that of a protein. Poisons such as potassium cyanide and bichloride of mercury inactivated but did not kill it-in other words, like protein, it regained activity after the poison was removed. Finally Rockefeller Institute...
...Edna Ferber. A friend of ours who recently had the pleasure of visiting her in New York spent most of her time being shown the glories of the lady writer's new Park Avenue penthouse, famous in the eyes of its present possessor as the former home of Ivar Krueger, the match king. One of its more spectacular features was a glassed-in terrace in which grew an orchard of genuine peach trees. This season, Miss Ferber's first in the apartment, brought an unexpected bumper crop. Some could be used in a silver bowl on the piano, others sent...
...Great Lakes Symphony was organized, drawing 100 men from the Cleveland Symphony, Detroit Symphony. New York Philharmonic Symphony. Guest leaders during the summer were to be Hans Kindler of Washington, D. C., Erno Rapee of the radio, Frank Black. National Broadcasting Co.'s general musical director. Karl Krueger of Kansas City and that most ubiquitous of summer conductors, Jose Iturbi. Also during the summer in Cleveland's Public Auditorium the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Symphonies would be sandwiched in between free concerts by Rudy Vallee, Wayne King. Paul Whiteman. Guy Lombardo and Major Bowes...
...years capable Conductor Karl Krueger has built up a Philharmonic Orchestra in Kansas City, attracted great audiences. Season's end found them only $1,000 in the red, and with 17,500 season tickets already sold for next year's extended season. But $25,000 more in underwriting pledges is still required...