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...Germany's Gerhard Domagk, who was awarded but could not accept a Nobel Prize (1939) for his work with prontosil (forerunner of sulfanilamide). In 1939 Dr. Benjamin Frank Miller of the University of Chicago was looking for an agent which would carry germicides into every nook & cranny of the teeth. Paging through LIFE one day, he ran across a picture of American Cyanamid's famous ducks being scuttled with its "Aerosol" wetting agent. Miller tried the same product on teeth, found that it penetrated everywhere with a germicide. Then he discovered that synthetic wetting agents themselves were also...
From the anthology, which proved successful despite the radical nature of its contents, he branched out to other fields. Regularly his "Poet of the Month" pamphlets appear, some of them significant, practically all of them unpublishable in the usual business sense of the word. The Modknown nook on the top floor of Widener, will have twice as many other names...
...Africa looks like a fat pistol holster, and about where the lower extremity of the butt would nestle lies the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone. This little nook of Empire has suddenly become important-because of its only port...
...appetite was good, his taste for game still as keen as when Mrs. Roosevelt said he liked any food "that flies through the kitchen." Sea food was still his favorite dish, terrapin in any form his prime favorite, with a gastronomic nook always reserved for kedgeree, a dish of flaked white fish, rice, hardboiled eggs. He is a cheese connoisseur, but likes ice cream to the point of second helpings. He honestly likes hot dogs. One Scotch highball at teatime is his usual ration, but on a night out he ups that limit: often at banquets the flower vases before...
...Post Society Pundit Hope Ridings Miller: "More men-young and older-than one usually sees at afternoon parties were on hand for the pleasant fete, which was accented by lively music from an orchestra that flourished on one side of the ballroom, and a gay company that filled every nook and cranny all over the place...