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...Beaver Country Day School was founded when John Dewey's ideas on progressive education were rearing their bumptious little heads. "Education generally was a pretty stale dish," recalls its headmaster. "Green mold is not limited to penicillin. Many a school has flourished in mold and called it tradition...
...Penicillin, so plentiful last summer that manufacturers got permission to put it in tablets and capsules, was back on the priority list as production fell farther & farther behind demand. The Civilian Production Administration (successor to WPB) figures that production is already 20% short of filling current needs, will set aside 40% for hospitals until further notice...
...Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, was awarded one-third of the $30,000 Nobel Prize in medicine; sharing it with him were two less publicized British penicillinists-Sir Howard Walter Florey, organizer of the research team which found practical means of extracting the capricious drug, and Dr. Ernst Boris Chain, the team's chief research genius...
...Conestogas have flown football teams, furniture, baby chicks, penicillin, fruit, vegetables, furs and race horses (see cut}. Last month, when the cruiser Astoria docked after 15 months in the Pacific, 120 of her crew chartered five Conestogas, whisked home in great style...
...Penicillin can be given in ice cream. Doctors at the San Diego Naval Training Center, treating sore throat, scarlet fever and trench mouth, stir penicillin into soft ice cream, put the mixture in paper cups and refreeze it in a refrigerator tray. The ice cream preserves the drug, disguises its bitter taste, and slips easily down babies and other difficult patients...