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More important than the actual synthesis of vitamin B-12 were the chemical principles developed during the investigation, Woodward said. Woodward and Ronald Hoffman of Cornell found new rules of "orbital symmetry" in organic compounds.
At last week's farewell meeting, Andrew Heiskell, chairman of the board of Time Inc., told the staff: "I would like to just remind you of the things you can be proud of." His list included "the courage and talent of the photographers" as well as "a sales force...
Two decades later, New York's front doors began opening to Blake as the composer of such Negro-flavored Broadway musicals as Elsie and Chocolate Dandies. His biggest hit was a startlingly original synthesis of ragtime and operetta called Shuffle Along. Written with Blake's old vaudeville partner...
Though Mary Lou Manachi, 17, of West Paterson, N.J., and Linda Chiarello, 16, of New Providence, N.J., have different interests and career ambitions, the two earnest high school students also have something in common: a life-threatening genetic defect. Both suffer from Cooley's anemia (thalassemia major), a hereditary...
Without at least a mail-order course in triadic dialectics, it is best to forgo analysis of Tournier's synthesis. Enough said that it has much to do with his notion that symbols have lives of their own and possess a diabolical potential. Yet in The Ogre, in contrast...