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...Jersey College for Women, a branch of Rutgers University, has an enterprising journalism department. Three months ago it sent several students on a practice assignment: to investigate the disappearance of Dr. Erhard Fernholz, a research chemist at the Squibb Institute in New Brunswick, N. J., who went for a walk in Princeton last December and was never seen alive again.* The students interviewed a Squibb official. He snapped: "Why bother us when you have a disappearance in your own back yard...
Dashing back to their campus, they stumbled on a big story, already known to the police (who presumably told Squibb Institute). Missing was the college's most widely known professor, Dr. Friedrich Johannes Hauptmann, head of the German department...
...bull market grew bigger, he barricaded himself and a staff of 20-odd in a suite of offices in Manhattan's Squibb Building overlooking Central Park. The nameless door was guarded by a plug-ugly who kept its key locked in a little green cabinet. No one could leave while the market was open; only outgoing telephone calls were allowed. Inside, like a grand croupier, sat Jesse Livermore, a bank of telephones at his elbow, his sharp blue eyes on his private board...
Last week a successful measles vaccine was announced by Drs. Joseph Stokes Jr. of U. of Pa.'s medical school and Geoffrey William Rake of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. They obtain active virus from the blood or throat washings of measly moppets, treat this material with ether or by filtering to remove bacteria, pass it into chicken eggshells through a small hole made with a dentist's drill, inject it into the chick embryo's outer membrane. After allowing four or five days for the virus to propagate, they open the eggs, remove the membrane...
...Westinghouse Electric Co. In 1899 Lawyer Cravath joined the firm whose senior partner he became. One of the biggest in the world, it became widely known. Some clients: Bethlehem Steel Corp., R. C. A., Baltimore & Ohio R. R., Kuhn. Loeb & Co., Chemical Bank & Trust Co.. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., Studebaker Corp. In later years, Lawyer Cravath rarely tried a case or wrote a brief, but engineered some notable reorganizations: Westinghouse, Missouri Pacific R. R., Interborough Rapid Transit Co. A globetrotter, diner-out, music-lover (he became chairman of the Metropolitan Opera in 1931), Paul Cravath...