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...runners strung out in a long line along the Soldiers Field fence, and far in front bobbed the red and green and blue jerseys. So far in front were the jerseys that it took a less speedy, but more enterprising runner to discover that Gate 12 was closed and that a third of the race had passed it by. With a motion both swift and efficient, this hero swung open Gate 12, giving those behind him a "second wind," to coin a phrase...
Proteins are enormously complicated molecules, and until Sanger's work on insulin, no one had ever been able to determine the structure of even the simplest of them. Chemists have known for many years that protein molecules are made of amino acids (nitrogen-containing organic acids) strung together in long chains or cables. By various kinds of rough treatment, the chemists could separate and count the amino acid building blocks. But this did not reveal their structural plan...
Everything lay under an acrid fog of blue smoke let off by the torches and flares. The assembled marching firemen. Cars hanging with streamers, pasted with signs. Banner-strung lamp posts. Photographers. Motorcycle policemen. Loudspeaker trucks. The crowds were restless. It was time...
...just 27 when he bought the Staten Island Advance for $98,000 in 1922. Since then, short (5 ft. 3 in.), stocky Samuel Irving Newhouse, 63, the son of a Russian immigrant, has strung together an empire of 13 newspapers. Among them: the Newark Star-Ledger, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Syracuse Herald-Journal and Post-Standard. The prosperous Newhouse chain is surpassed in heft and wealth only by Scripps-Howard (21 papers) and Hearst...
America's men were reared with rubber nipples and talcum powder to an apron-strung neurosis. Homosexuality (8,000,000 in the U.S. at last estimate) went on the upswing--Dad had the only woman worth wanting. And Father became the fall-guy for every situation comedy and Sunday color comic--the benign, well - meaning, oft - stumbling, ever - bungling apex of the Oedipus triangle...