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...Eugene Lang: House Football; Freshman Athletic Manager...
Soon after the gentle people of the Maidive Islands abolished their centuries-old sultanate and elected Amin Didi their first President (TIME. Jan. 12, 1953), they began to regret it. Amin Didi was chock-full of reform plans-he wrote a new anthem to the tune of Auld Lang Syne; he abolished purdah and designed a new Mother Hubbard for women to wear; he forced the men to elect women to the legislature; he built an elaborate handicraft shop, despite the fact that rarely more than a half dozen tourists a year visit the isolated island chain...
Clarence L. Hogan was appointed associate professor of Applied Physics; Lloyd M. Trefethen, professor of Mechanical Engineering; and Andrew R. Lang, instructor in Metallurgy...
Biochemist Linderstrom-Lang tells what progress has been made toward disentangling the proteins. Progress thus far is not impressive, and until chemists have mastered the proteins' secrets, they cannot understand how life's chemistry works...
Tangled Proteins. Life has mysteries that are just as baffling as those of inanimate nature. Danish Biochemist Kaj Ulrik Linderstrom-Lang pays his baffled respects to the proteins, of which all living objects are largely made. Living cells, even simple bacteria, make proteins by the dozens, but human chemists so far have not synthesized any. The proteins' molecules probably have long central chains of amino acids. These are coiled like springs, and all sorts of chemical oddments must be attached at precisely the right turns of the spiraling chains...