Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slide was shown by Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to the annual meeting of the Society in Philadelphia. It was a picture of the virus which causes the mosaic disease of tobacco plants, one of the largest molecules known to chemists. It is a rod-shaped structure, about 40,000,000 times the size of the hydrogen atom (basic unit of atomic and molecular weight). But even at this size it could be photographed only with the recently developed electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28), which by using electron beams instead of light can magnify images...
...When she tells him there is nothing wrong with her, he says: "I'm sure you will feel differently when you leave this office." She does. Her happy marriage to a solidly normal insurance salesman (Melvyn Douglas) is disrupted by another of the doctor's patients (Burgess Meredith), a zany pianist badly in need of a few treatments...
...There is his flawless sense of timing accentuated by his tricks with the Mickey Mouse technique of scoring. There is his poker-faced observation of the ridiculous. And there is his Svengalish knack of urging the utmost from his actors. For the first time in his movie career, Burgess Meredith is sufficiently subdued to be a funny comedian. For an advanced course in the sort of fluff & nonsense which has been the Lubitsch trademark, That Uncertain Feeling is a prerequisite...
...rhythm for Astaire. Faced with this lack of terpsichorean ability in his partner, Fred must spend most of "Second Chorus" blowing a trumpet on which he obviously doesn't know the difference between the valves and the mouthpiece. As perennial collegians with a bent for music, he and Burgess Meredith tootle their way through a spottily amusing show. Artie Shaw is along just for the ride...
...Continued the current shake-up of U. S. diplomats, replacing political appointees in Latin-American posts with career men. To replace genial old (74) Indiana Novelist Meredith Nicholson as Minister to Nicaragua went Pierre de Lagarde Boal, 45, now Embassy counselor in Mexico City. To replace genial, middle-aged (55) Findley Burtch Howard as Minister to Paraguay went Wesley Frost, recently Embassy counselor in Santiago, Chile...