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...most authoritative blows yet struck for the pro-fluoride side in the passionate U.S.-wide controversy over doctoring public drinking water. For half a century Lithuanian-born Dr. Dublin, 74, has been translating statistics into weapons for the war against disease. From 1909 to 1952, as head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s statistical branch, he amassed data from the health records of 30 million policyholders...
...University of Michigan's Lithuanian-born Reuben Kahn, 69, chief of the University hospital's serology laboratory. A shy, brilliant man who can rarely get through a night without waking to jot down some idea that has popped into his mind, Kahn developed a test for syphilis that largely replaced the cumbersome Wassermann, in 1951 published a theory that could be a major step toward the early detection of disease. His "universal blood reaction" theory: a healthy person's system produces antibodies in a definite, ascertainable pattern. In a sick person antibodies form faster and in different...
Arrested in their Manhattan apartment on charges of spying for Russia, Lithuanian-born Jack Soble and his wife Myra replied "not guilty" when a clerk at the federal courthouse last February asked them how they pleaded. Last week, pale, haggard but looking strangely relaxed, the Sobles switched their plea to guilty on a count of conspiring with Soviet agents to "receive and obtain" U.S. defense secrets. Maximum sentence: $10,000 fine and ten years' imprisonment...
...Chess Club's A team defeated the Lithuanian Chess Club by a score of 3 to 2 in the first round of the Metropolitan Boston Chess Tournament last weekend. In the A match, first board Shelby Lyman...
...citizens of San Antonio, Texas turned out last week in admiring tribute to the dean of U.S. sculptors, Lithuanian-born William Zorach, 69, whose massive figures have for the past four decades decorated the U.S. scene. On view at the McNay Art Institute was a retrospective showing of 27 of Zorach's sculptures, photographs of his best-known works, and 65 of his drawings and watercolors, on loan from leading U.S. museums and collectors. Editorialized the San Antonio News: "The most beautiful and exciting sculpture that it has ever been our happy privilege to see." The San Antonio Express...