Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sudden Departure. For eight thirsty days Mr. Fairservis and his companions explored the dead city, collecting domestic utensils (knives and pottery) from mud-walled kitchens. In many of the buildings the roof-timbers were still in place. Apparently the city had not been burned or otherwise damaged by invaders. It seems to have been abandoned peacefully and rather suddenly. To judge by the architecture, its last inhabitants were Moslems, but certain decorative details show Greek influence. Mr. Fairservis hopes that its ruins may hide Greek manuscripts preserved by the dry climate...
...radio for ten years before anyone found him particularly funny on the air. Then Producer John Guedel saw him ad lib for ten minutes on a network show when Bob Hope accidentally dropped his script. Shortly thereafter Guedel put Groucho into You Bet Your Life. He still has some qualms: "Having Groucho as emcee of a quiz show is like using a Cadillac to haul coal...
With this money (and more still to come), Rutgers and Waksman are planning to build an Institute of Microbiology. Quiet, modest Dr. Waksman will enjoy the new equipment and the more spacious laboratories. For himself he asks little. By taking advantage of the unusually liberal Rutgers policy in such financial matters, he might have claimed all the proceeds of his discovery and become a millionaire. But he turned over his royalty rights to the Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation with the mild observation: "Rutgers won't let me starve...
...country who had come to join her brother in the U.S. Back at Rutgers in 1918 as a lecturer in soil microbiology, after getting his Ph.D. at the University of California, Waksman worked mostly on the soil problems of farmers. But he began asking himself a question which is still far from answered: What do microbes do to the soil, to each other, and ultimately...
...Farmer. It is still too early to put neomycin among the widely useful antibiotics because of possible harmful side effects such as kidney damage. But it has already been used with success as a last desperate measure. Just before Labor Day, a fat but unhappy farmer was admitted to Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He had a deep-seated infection caused by a common microbe, Aerobacter aerogenes, which is usually a pushover for penicillin or streptomycin...