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...were running out even faster than the sands of time remaining before schoolterm's end and the height of the epidemic season. The Public Health Service was not releasing any newly made vaccine. Last week it was not even releasing rechecked vaccine on hand, made by two manufacturers (Pitman-Moore Co. and Wyeth Inc.). The shortage was bound to get worse. At week's end, PHS was reported considering new, stricter testing procedures that would in effect call off the whole program this season...
...University were 600 times smaller, or if Widener Library were 600 times larger, Thomas B. Pitman '14 would have had nothing to do in 1936. But circumstances favored Pitman: Harvard then commissioned him to construct the world's smallest university. For the modest sum of $40,000, he did indeed build it a perfect reproduction of its financier now on permanent display on the main floor of Widener...
...other Pitman models on the same floor show University and town buildings around what is now Harvard Square as they were in 1667 and 1775. Nearly 900 hand-carved buildings in the 1936 miniature stand on a 100 pound 11 x 4 feet rectangular base. The most difficult of these to make, according to the artists who worked on the model, was the replice, of massive and Victories Memorial Hall, in the Lillipulian Version, its 305 feet length is reducted to about six inches, with the spire rising to a height of 4 1/2 inches. The spire, and buttresses...
...Pitman remembers a woman who came into the studio to see the model before it was completed and was thrilled at discovering the reproduction of her own house. "She also noticed," he recalls, "that we had put one of her trees in front of the wrong window...
...Cutter Laboratories, Berkeley, Calif.; Eli Lilly Co. and Pitman-Moore, Indianapolis; Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit; Sharp & Dohme and Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., Philadelphia...