Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year's Toronto Maple Leafs finished next to the cellar, missed the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 16 years. Also-and fans thought they saw the connection-they were the most even-tempered, law-abiding team in the whole National Hockey League. This fall the Leafs have turned a brighter, more attractive color. Last week they could point with pride to league leadership in 1) games won, 2) time per game in the penalty...
...prize's final quarter went to Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley, also of Rockefeller-at-Princeton. Stanley was the man who threw a bomb into science (and philosophy and religion) by finding a Thing which acted like an inanimate chemical and also like a living, growing organism. It was the virus which causes the "mosaic disease" in tobacco plants. It can spread from plant to plant, multiplying within the living cells, apparently living itself. Dr. Stanley tricked it into a test tube, where it quieted down, the "living" molecules stacking together into protein crystals. But within this seemingly dead chemical...
During the war, Dr. Stanley worked on vaccines to use against influenza and Japanese encephalitis. (He handled the deadly encephalitis virus himself, rarely letting others touch it.) Now he is back at basic virus research, trying to find out how these living-dead things reproduce. There, he believes, lies the secret of life...
...Stanley Karson '48, chairman elect of the National Affairs Committee, is slated to report on progress of plans for this Sunday's conference on "Problems of the Student-Veteran." Student Affairs Committee chairman Charles Sellers '45 will present resolutions offering AVC endorsement to Harvard participation in the forthcoming Chicago Preparatory Conence for a national student organization, and opposing the continuing rise in campus living costs...
Created to handle all V. A. insurance problems that student veterans may wish to settle, the new office will be directed by Stanley Gruber of the Boston Regional Office...