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Bishop Wright does not deny that the world is in a parlous state, but the man of faith and education, he insists, remembers that it was ever thus. Recalling "the small print of his history books, he watches with serenity as once again the tyrants who would tame God's men . . . are in fact slowly but surely tamed by them, if not in themselves, at least in their descendancy...
...Waksman himself tried hard to tame actinomycin, but none of his chemical tricks seemed to work. After thousands of animals had been killed in his Rutgers University lab, he gave up and began hunting other antibiotics. By 1943, he found the wonder drug, streptomycin. In 1949. he and his assistants produced neomycin (TIME, April 4, 1949). Actinomycin became a half-forgotten curiosity. Dr. Waksman kept only a sample somewhere in the litter on his desk...
...contemplate Farouk's powerful, hairy wrists in exile-first on Capri, finally in a 30-room villa staffed by eight servants in the Alban Hills outside Rome. Bereft of palaces, they pursued pleasures: days at the races, nights at the opera, wee hours at Rome's tame little nightclubs. Each had a Mercedes-Benz, green for him, cherry red for her. Sometimes they appeared separately, 19-year-old Narriman with a coterie of envious, twittering, teen-age girls, Farouk with a pretty French blonde or Italian brunette...
Princeton has a more reasonable excuse; it would have to travel over 250 miles for four away games in the Boston area, besides going to games at Providence and Hanover. But the league could go on a one game basis, with the first of a two tame series counting for the standings with all teams but Princeton. It could also follow the example of the Western NCAA. There, if two teams can't meet twice, the points from the one game are doubled for the standings. Thus, a victory in the Princeton-B.U. game would give the winner four...
...made his way to Paris, where he learned animal painting from Rosa Bonheur. On his return, he went west with a circus, painting the animals and developing an interest in Indian life. Later he decorated circus wagons for P. T. Barnum, finally decided his life was too tame and set forth in search of savages...