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Curse of Drinks. For Northwestern University, Ott harnessed his cameras to a new-type microscope, took movies every six seconds of cancer cells multiplying as they fed on a saline-plasma solution. For the National Apple Institute, promoting apples for refreshment, he mounted a human tooth in plastic, kept two cameras on it for a year, taking shots every 2½^ hours as the tooth was bathed in a popular soft drink. Result: a movie of progressive tooth decay...
...following appeared in a farewell editorial in The Daily Northwestern...
There are lots of us who would like to think that about Northwestern. Because we have everything Harvard has--and more. We're old, loaded, in a good location, have an overall brilliant faculty, and even have girls...
When Lynn Stevenson '53 saw her blouse, which had been lying on the pier, blow into the lake, she called to Chapralis, asking him to retrieve it for her. --Dally Northwestern...
...Alvin S. McCoy, about a Kansas state hospital building. It was a tuberculosis hospital built in 1928 under a strange arrangement between the state and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, a fraternal insurance company. The A.O.U.W. paid for construction of the building on state property at Norton, in northwestern Kansas; the state agreed to run the hospital, giving A.O.U.W. policyholders a priority on its beds. In March 1951, when the insurance order's list of patients had dwindled to only one, the A.O.U.W. sold the building to the state for $110,000. Reporter McCoy discovered that the A.O.U.W...