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...vivid biography of the late great Hideyo Noguchi who died while seeking the cause of yellow fever in Africa, appeared last week.* It uncloaks the tumultuous little scientist, of whom only intimate friends knew more than that he was born in 1876 to a Japanese peasant, that he eventually reached the U. S. where he produced important discoveries on snake venoms, syphilis, infantile paralysis, rabies, smallpox, yellow fever, that nations gave him kudos...
...Rockefeller Institute, of which he was a member, affects a scientific attitude by shrouding its researchers in their cold reports. For example, scarcely a soul knew that Noguchi was married-to a Manhattan girl named Mary Dardis, whom he called Mazie. She called him Hidey, as he insisted. They lived in a confused menage near Central Park. He would come in at all hours, would sleep but three or four hours (when he was a child he reasoned that brief sleep was the essence of Napoleon's career). Nor did many know why the fingers of his left hand...
...Copenhagen they gave me the Royal Medal. If I add what I got from Spain, I have two foreign decorations. It is said that the Swedish Crown intends to decorate me. . . . I was given audience by two royalties. . . ." He often referred to himself with naive objectiveness, as "funny Noguchi...
Intense, irregular work and living gave him an enlarged heart and diabetes. He was gloomy when he went to Africa in 1927. Mrs. Noguchi remained behind, gloomy too. She still lives in Manhattan...
...write." Actually Dr. Gustav Eckstein, 40, has been a dental surgeon for 20 years, a medical doctor for seven, is salaried instructor of physiology at the University of Cincinnati. He lives across the Ohio River, at Fort Thomas, Ky. For most of his source material he went to Noguchi's old Japanese haunts...