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...companies entered vigorous denials to FTC charges. As the kingpin of the alleged monopoly, Pfizer's President John E. McKeen said: "Pfizer never engaged in a conspiracy, never misused its patents, never fixed prices, and wields no monopolistic powers." Although recognizing that the newer wonder drugs do command high prices, the manufacturers long since have cut the price of the older standbys, such as penicillin and streptomycin, so low that they are added in large amounts to animal feed. Said Bristol-Myers' President Frederick N. Schwartz: "Our average profit on all antibiotics sold in 1957 was less than...
CHARLES R. McKEEN Clinton...
Married. Helen Estelle Knowland, 19, brunette daughter of Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland; and Robert Van Sickle McKeen, 23, a 1955 University of California basketball star, now with the Kaiser Steel Corp.; in Oakland. Calif...
...June wedding season was helped along by Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland, who proclaimed the banns for his petite daughter Estelle, 19, a Stanford University junior, and husky Robert McKeen, 23, former University of California basketball star...
...Since no one ever knows where a new antibiotic will be turned up (the purest penicillin strain was discovered growing on a melon in Peoria), Pfizer began to check the molds in 100,000 different samples of soil, gathered from all over the world. The job, says McKeen, was to find "the compounds that God has put in the earth for centuries." After uncovering 75 possible antibiotics, none of which did the trick, Pfizer chemists came across terramycin in dirt from Indiana, promptly dubbed it the "Spirit of '76." A "broad band" antibiotic, terramycin attacks 55 diseases...