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Times Books President Thomas Lipscomb hand-carried a copy of the manuscript to editors of the Book-of-the-Month Club, which had chosen Ends as a main selection. On short notice, a handful of book reviewers were offered an opportunity to see the book, but each was required to sign a secrecy agreement before receiving his copy. Editors of the Times Syndicate offered serialization rights only to publications here and abroad that would sign secrecy agreements before inspecting a summary at Times Books' New York offices. One of the publishers who signed and saw was Australian Rupert Murdoch...
...Physics Department hosted a reception for Van Vleck. Nobel laureates William N. Lipscomb, professor of Chemistry, and Edward M. Pureell, Gade Professor of Physics, joined in toasting their colleague...
...borane discoveries have also led to advancements in color photography and the development of a new synthetic rubber material that "shows a constant viscosity over a particularly wide range of temperatures," Lipscomb said...
Speaking informally in a pin-striped suit with a "Kentucky Colonel" tie, Lipscomb flavored his lecture with personal anecdotes about his laboratory work and his trip to Sweden to receive his Nobel prize...
...Lipscomb said that studies done by Linus Pauling, a double Nobel prize-winner, first interested him in borane chemistry because "everything he said was wrong," but added that all early theories about borane structures were simplistic and incorrect...