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...basic technique was worked out at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research by a team including famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos and Dr. Gardner Middlebrook. Between 5 and 7 cc of blood (less than two teaspoons) are drawn from an arm vein. The serum (amber fluid) is separated from the cells and added to a specially treated preparation containing the red cells of sheep's blood. The mixture is kept at blood heat for two hours and then left at room temperature overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sharper Tool | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Says modest Dr. Waksman: "I get students from all over the world, and sometimes I learn more from the student than he learns from me." Such a student came to Waksman in 1924 to work for his Ph.D.: a young (23) Frenchman named René Jules Dubos. Waksman turned Dubos loose on the activities of microbes in reducing plant fibers to humus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Soil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

When France is in the throes of forming a new government, the spectacle is undignified, sometimes dangerous and a severe physical tax on the men involved at the core of it. For three days 54-year-old René Mayer, last week's unsuccessful premier-designate, did not eat a decent meal. From morning until late at night he conferred hectically with party leaders. At intervals he replenished his energies with crackers and chocolate bars from a desk drawer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crackers & Chocolate | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...French parliamentary history, Moch had been approved by the Assembly, but he could not form a cabinet. It seemed that neither of the other two parties in the center coalition, the Radicals and Popular Republicans, wanted a Socialist premier. Then long-suffering M. Auriol called on the Radicals' René Mayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crackers & Chocolate | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...fashioned competitive system it stands for. First set up in 1808, the exams have long been attacked by progressives as a "savage rite of French bourgeois snobbism." Philosopher-Scholar Etienne Gilson coupled the bac with alcoholism as the "twin scourges of the French people." Novelist René Barjavel complained in the weekly Carrefour, "[the bachot] is just a slip of paper proving that its owner has a minimum of general knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bac & the Trac | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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