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...minor volunteer worker at the Institute named Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Familiar only to the small scientific circle is the mighty attack of Dr. Florence Sabin upon the germ of tuberculosis. Every cancer specialist is aware of Rous's sarcoma but outside the Institute's walls Dr. Peyton Rous is a personal unknown. It took a Nobel Prize in 1930 and the recent use of his blood analysis in bastardy cases to put Dr. Karl Landsteiner into the lay Press. Long ago Dr. Alexis Carrel had some small renown as the man who had found a way to keep...
Recipient of last week's milestone was Joseph V. Ledwinka, 64, Vienna-born chief engineer of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. (Philadelphia), makers of automobile and railroad equipment (see p. 49). The company sent him to Washington to be photographed receiving his papers from the hand of Conway Peyton Coe, young Commissioner of Patents. Engineer Ledwinka was not excited by the event. This was the 248th U. S. patent he has received since, in 1899, he invented "a means of propulsion of vehicles by electricity...
...celebrating his 70th birthday, tall, lean, goat-bearded General Peyton Conway March, Chief of Staff during the last months of the War, welcomed newshawks in his Washington office, told them that the U. S. should build up its Army from 136,000 to 300,000 men in preparation for war in Europe. Warned he: "The situation in Europe is so bad that anything can happen at any time. The Saar at present is a tinder box. . . . Japan will never play a hand with us unless...
Proudly the new president called the roll of his college's famed sons- Thomas Jefferson, Peyton and Edmund Randolph, John Marshall, James Monroe, John Tyler. Graciously he placed his guest in the heroic line. His address finished, President Bryan turned to confer the degree of Doctor of Laws on Franklin D. Roosevelt, "restorer of hope to a desperate people . . . imaginative employer of scholarship as the servant of the State." After compliments to President Bryan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Thomas Jefferson...
...Dartmouth game and Doc Peyton's orchestra are ready to furnish entertainment for Lowell men and others in the University who are so inclined this weekend. Dancing will be from 6.30 o'clock until midnight in the Lowell House Dining Hall. The patrons and patronesses will be headed by Professor and Mrs. Julian Coolidge and will include: Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Baker, Mr. P. P. Chase, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mims, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Munn, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Melius, Mr. and Mrs. E. Rosenstock-Hussy, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sharp...