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...Salk's laboratories could not produce more than a fraction of the hundreds of gallons of vaccine needed for such a massive trial. So it is being made according to his specifications on a nonprofit basis by five pharmaceutical houses-Parke, Davis & Co. in Detroit. Pitman-Moore and Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis, Wyeth Inc. in Philadelphia, the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif. For all of them, the indispensable raw material is the monkey, and the procedure is much the same. For example...
...Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. of Buffalo. That gave the company two blast furnaces in the East plus fabricating equipment in New England. More important, C.F. & I. also got Wickwire's Plant Superintendent Alwin Franz, a crack operating man who started in the steel business as an open-hearth pitman and is now C.F. & I.'s president...
...Nearest rival: the Isaac Pitman system. The Gregg system, based on the scoops and curves of ordinary longhand, flows smoothly along the line; the Pitman system uses straight lines, circles, and detached vowel symbols...
...Paul M. Pitman, a TIME-reader for the past 20 years, got an idea when he read TIME Education's annual "Goodbye, Messrs. Chips" story last July. As he studied the story of eight topflight teachers then going into retirement, he decided that as new president of the College of Idaho he needed just that kind of mature scholar to mix with his younger teachers. So he wrote letters to them, asking each if he would like to come out to Idaho...
...Uncle Harry" Miles Johnson, Tulane University's rumpled and violent psychology lecturer, took up Pitman's offer, will arrive at the College of Idaho this September. Other "Messrs. Chips" responded with interest, one with a blunt "What's your proposition?" Pitman figures that the board will soon find money enough to make some propositions. Nowadays, he is looking forward to the next Mr. Chips story and more recruits...