Word: melnick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burton A. Melnick '62, of Quincy House and Dorchester, was chosen Treasurer; John S. Lutch '62, of Winthrop House and Medford, Business Manager...
Each night the students will present two Mozart operas conducted by Joel Lazar '61, Bastien and Bastienne, and Martinu--Comedy on the Bridge. Besides the operas, the festival may include several chamber music recitals, according to Burton A. Melnick '62, director. Melnick also hopes to have a prominent poet visit the House and read some of his works, but he has not yet selected the writer...
...Live-polio-virus vaccines, in wide use outside the U.S., are still not really safe for general use as a public-health measure, says Baylor University's Dr. Joseph Melnick after a study of such vaccines. Melnick told the fifth Congress of Biological Standardization in Jerusalem that, while there have been relatively few cases of paralytic polio among those vaccinated with live-virus vaccines, some of the virus strains, after they pass through the human body, become more virulent. It is possible that contact with virus-infected excrement could spread polio to unvaccinated persons. His recommendation: until the stability...
...Mixed Doubles, D. Shapere and S. Sale defeated R. Dowling and D. Melnick (forfeit); P. Pratt and K. Hildreth defeated T. Atkinson and H. Chwang (6-1, 6-2), T. Tully and D. Bird defeated W. Tucker and C. Hanschka (6-4, 6-2); P. Keesing and G. Kinkleman defeated W. Porter and M. Neyland (6-3, 6-1); F. Keesing and M. Keesing defeated D. Johnson and J. Neely...
...virus's appetite for nucleoproteins suggested an explanation of the oft-reported link between physical fatigue and the severity of a polio attack, said Dr. Melnick. The nucleoproteins are believed to be reduced by extreme fatigue. Therefore, if the polio virus attacks an exhausted person, the supply of nucleoproteins will be at a minimum and the virus will soon consume it, causing the death of the nerve cells. But if the infected person is well rested and has an abundant store of nucleoproteins in his nerve cells, the virus may be able to satisfy its own needs without destroying...