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...Nobel Prize for Medicine was divided between Banting and Professor John James Rickard Macleod, his department head who had made the research work possible but had done none of it until after the basic discovery. Banting was sore because he felt that Charles Best, the laboratory assistant who had actually helped him track down insulin, had been slighted. He honored Best in his own impulsive way by giving him half of his own share of the prize money...
...feud began in 1938, when MacLeod's Magazine-sister publication of the Post -published an article called "Canada's Armament Mystery." Written by Lieut. Colonel George Drew, it exposed a deal wherein the Government financed a private company to manufacture Bren guns for Britain at over-lush profits. Two days later the Post led a press crusade for a Royal Commission investigation. The Government denounced the article as "scurrilous and irresponsible." But two and a half years later, with Canada at war, the Winnipeg Free Press broke the story that the old Bren gun contract had been canceled...
...bronze pins, bone combs, glass beads, hand mills for grinding grain, whetstones, Viking silver, and, according to the diggers, the finest ceremonial circle of druid stones in Eire. In charge were Professor Sean P. O'Riordain of Cork's University College and his assistant lecturer, Miss Caitriona MacLeod, a witty and personable young woman who speaks and dances Gaelic. A typical Stone Age house which they unearthed, 32 feet long by 18 wide, had walls of stone and wood, a thatched roof supported by rows, of wooden posts, a long living room with a fireplace and aisles...
...since the golden days of the Hutchinson - Macleod combination has Dartmouth seen a back with such promising potentialities as Bud Troxell, a shifty half who has sparked the Nw Hampshire team ion both its victories. However, Bud has been bothered with a bad ankle throughout the season and say not start tomorrow...
...this afternoon starting at 2 o'clock it may be a different story. No Hutchinson--no MacLeod.--That is the cry of woe which the releases from New Hampshire are screaming. The team is potentially a powerhouse with a line that in spots is the equal of any team in the Ivy League with two obvious exceptions. Coach Earl Blaik, in fact, hasn't been worrying too much about his line during the past week; he's been hunting all over the hilly terrain of Hanover for a climax runner, a runner with speed, a runner who can break loose...