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...odds & ends of information, like the hodge-podge of an almanac, which was mightily impressive to his readers. He had a Wellsian feeling for science and material progress, often pondered on the vastness of the material universe, as contrasted with the minuteness of man. For a King Features symposium just before his death, Mr. Brisbane typically wrote: "The successful completion of the 200-inch telescopic reflector is the most important event of 1936. It will carry the sight and mind of science man at least one million light years into space, and that is a long distance.* ... I think mankind...
...four speakers in the Harvard Student Union symposium were Albert Sprague Coolidge '15, lecturer on chemistry, and candidate for the Senate on the Socialist ticket; George Blake, secretary of the New England division of the Communist Party; David Stock, a Democratic New York lawyer and former special counsel to the Finance Committee of the Senate during Hoover's regime; and Henry Parkman '15, a member of the Massachusetts Senate who presented the Republican point of view...
...Madison, Wis. last week 500 doctors gathered to hear the nation's foremost cancer specialists discuss what is known and what is not known about the second most common cause of death in the U. S.* Expenses of this cancer symposium were paid by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation which thereby saved local doctors about $75 each...
...develop cancer of the breast (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week at Madison Dr. Madge Thurlow Macklin of London, Ont. declared that this inherited organ susceptibility applied to human beings too. Said Dr. Macklin, 43, plump, vivacious mother of three daughters, and the only woman taking part in the cancer symposium: "We find that the members of a family tend to have the same type of cancer, and in the same organ, and at about the same time of life. Thus it is much commoner to find a family in which the mother and two daughters have breast cancer, or uterine...
...Tercentenary celebration in which Harvard can take just pride is the Conference of Arts and Sciences. Here the foremost scholars of the world have gathered in Cambridge to hold the most spectacular intellectual symposium of modern times. The explanation of their respective countries and peoples given by Prof. Anesaki of Japan and Dr. HuShin of China; the glimpses into industrialism of the future disclosed by Dr. Bergius; and the startling possibilities of the work done in biological chemistry by such men as Ruzicka of Switzerland; are the parts of the Tercentenary to be permanently remembered. The flattery of Boston newspapers...