Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week at the University of Minnesota, two top-level professors-Dr. Robert G. Green, expert in bacteriology and immunology, and Dr. John J. Bittner, geneticist and cancer biologist-nailed up an important signpost in medicine's fight against cancer. They reported that they had discovered: 1) a filterable virus which definitely causes breast cancer in mice; 2) an anti-cancer serum which kills the mouse cancer cells, in test tubes...
Just for the asking, Cedric Malcolm Adams can get almost anything in Minnesota. As the Northwest's favorite radio and press gossip, he has found homes for 50,000 minnows, 76,000 other animal, vegetable and mineral objects including baby alligators, pianos, crutches, white mice, a skunk, an artificial leg and four corsets. Once he asked his fans to help a widow who had lost her $37 income-tax payment. More than 57,000 responded, each mailing a penny to Cedric. Last week, the Pied Piper casually asked his public for a solution to the nylon shortage...
...talking and writing in a back-porch patter, Cedric has convinced nearly everyone in Minnesota that he is his personal friend. On radio station WCCO, he is more popular than Bob Hope and Kate Smith; 65% of the men and 73% of the women who read the Minneapolis Star-Journal never miss his column, "In This Corner." They send him gifts, words of comfort when he is ill and many a hot news tip. One gossipy tidbit was almost too informative. In 1937 Cedric said: "A prominent labor leader . . . will be 'taken for a ride' within two weeks...
Adams is as much of an institution in Minnesota as smorgasbord. He was once (in the 19205) associate editor of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Now he is so influential that he has to mind what he says. Once he mentioned that his shoe laces were frayed. The next mail' brought 46 new pairs. A theater offered free admission to patrons bringing four-leaf clovers. The day after Cedric printed the item, the theater turned away a 9,000 overflow, had only one cash customer. When he said a Minnesota serviceman in Alaska wanted a piano, Cedric...
Meyer, who served as former Minnesota Governor Stassen's assistant at the San Francisco Conference last fall, and also attended the Bretton Woods Conferences, is a leading proponent of the Dublin, New Hampshire, movement for World Federation...