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Research knows no frontiers, but researchers in different parts of the world often work, unknown to each other, on the same problem. Thus, in 1936, two biochemists, Edward Kendall of Rochester, Minn, and Polish-born Tadeus Reichstein of Basel, Switzerland, independently reported that among the secretions of the adrenal glands they had found a complex hormone. Kendall called it compound...
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Oct. 5--The amount of angry mail that has crossed sports editors' desks in this town since Minnesota dropped a football game to Washington last week is incredible. It makes the angry Marine Corps sound like a bunch of clubwomen discussing a neighbor who undresses with the shades...
HUBERT R. ESTES, M.D. Rochester, Minn...
...chose to work among one of the fiercest tribes in Africa-the blood-drinking, spear-wielding Masai. Going back to Tanganyika from his last furlough in the U.S., he had two practical gifts: a tractor presented to him by St. Paul's Church in St. Paul, Minn, and "a splendid shotgun" given by the First Lutheran Church in Worthington, Minn. He has used the first to grow corn, beans and tobacco, the second to shoot "three lions and many hyenas." His days range from dullness to drama, from frustration to reward. His letter describing one exciting 24 hours appeared...
...rained for 62 days. The crops around Clarissa, Minn. (pop. 645) had withered away to almost nothing. In the village park the pines had lost their green vigor and the dry earth was dust brown. But everyone, as Reporter George Grim of the Minneapolis Tribune noted, had gathered nonetheless for the community service that features Clarissa's annual harvest festival. They joined in singing...