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Degraded Virus. The two researchers worked with the simple and well-known virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco plants and is called TMV for short. Its particles are rod-shaped, and are known to consist of central cores of nucleic acid with protein molecules strung around them. Drs. Fraenkel-Conrat and Williams prepared pure solutions of the submicroscopic rods, mixed them with dilute alkaline chemicals and held them close to the freezing point for two to three days. This treatment "degraded" some of the virus, separating the rods into nucleic acid and protein molecules. Undegraded rods were taken...
General Motors, whose car-studded Motoramas have become one of the brightest offerings in auto showmanship, decided last February to bring belated glamour to the plain-Jane diesel engine. Beside Soldier Field on Chicago's lake front, the company strung out eight miles of electrical conduits, laid 500,000 sq. ft. of reinforced paving, built a permanent, 204-ft.-long bridge over busy Lake Shore Drive. This week General Motors was ready to raise the curtain on "Powerama," a $7,000,000, 26-day, seven-day-a-week diesel opera...
...said that he had not informed upon his fellow prisoners, nor accepted rewards from the Communists. Gallagher admitted that he had signed a Communist peace petition urging U.S. troops to stop the "useless war," that he sometimes took the Communist side in camp discussion groups, that he had strung up a sick fellow prisoner from a peg; his purpose, said Gallagher, was to give the sick patient exercise. "I did not have too many friends," he said. "The men just didn't like me. When I would walk up to another squad, the men would say, 'Shut...
...former P.W.s testified against him), Sergeant Gallagher remained calm. At week's end, the court-martial gave its verdict: guilty of the unpremeditated murder of both the sick men he put out into the snow, of the maltreatment-but not the murder-of the third man he had strung from the peg, guilty of collaborating with the enemy. The sentence was the maximum: confinement at hard labor "for the term of your natural life...
...late Spanish-born Julio Gonzalez, son of a Barcelona goldsmith. A tutor to fellow Barcelones Pablo Picasso, Gonzalez hammered out of sheet iron figures in praise of the peasant girls of his native land (see cut). Among the first of the Americans was Mobile-Master Alexander Calder, who strung together cut-out metal forms to create a moving, pulsating world of abstract form slowly moving in space...