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...word vitamin to describe these food elements essential to good health. But there are not enough letters in the English alphabet to go around. In addition to that difficulty, special students of vitamins are so bewildered by the mounting mass of facts about vitamins, that Professor Clive Maine McCay of Cornell put his tongue in his cheek and wrote for last week's Science...
...remedy this accursed condition, funny Vitaminologist McCay proposed that the League of Nations begin a vitamin registry to identify vitamins by numbers. Then "when a new vitamin is to be postulated, the discoverer will need only to address a postcard to the central agency. Thus if a specific growth factor is discovered for moose by some nutrition student working in northern Ontario, he will only need address a request to the central agency. By return mail he will be assigned some number such as 1,572, and this will be recorded thenceforth. As specific properties of this number are developed...
...Yard Relay--Won by Harvard (Quinlan, McCay, Colony, Berizzi); Navy (Leonard, Boykin, Friedrich, Devane), second. Time...
...free style champion and a member of Uncle Sam's Olympic team in Berlin last summer. His classmate Graham Cummin is also an intercollegiate champion, having won the backstroke in that meet in record-breaking time. Two other top free-style men from the class of '38 are Donald McCay and Donald Barker...
...Cornell Professors Leonard Amby Maynard, 49, Clive Maine McCay, 38, and Sydney Arthur Asdell, 38, will direct the research. All are learned, industrious biochemists. None is a doctor of medicine qualified to apply his findings to the physiology of human beings. The trio hope to validate "the theory that the characteristics of youth can be retained . . . by special diets." This they expect to prove by feeding mature rats a great variety of foods...