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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Covering his 25th Kentucky Derby last spring, Hearstling Sportwriter Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum gratified his readers by picking the race one-two-three-four. Hereafter they will have to depend on someone else for their forecasts. Easygoing, fireplug-shaped Columnist Corum was named last week to succeed the late Colonel Matt Winn (TIME, Oct. 17) as president of the American Turf Association and Churchill Downs, i.e.) impresario of the Derby...
Fortunately for Rutgers - and for mankind - Dean William H. Martin of the College of Agriculture saved Dr. Waksman from the ax. Within two years Selman Waksman's "playing around with microbes" had paid off with one of the biggest jackpots that has ever gushed from a scientist's laboratory. Dr. Waksman (rhymes with boxman) had become the discoverer of streptomycin, which ranks next to penicillin among the antibiotics and is the first of these "wonder drugs" to show hopeful results in the treatment of tuberculosis...
...drug on the patient. Within a few hours the infection was licked, and a few days later the fat farmer walked out, pain-free for the first time in years. Says Dr. Duncan: "There may not be many cases like this, but if we can save only one or two patients a year with a drug like neomycin, that drug has justified its existence...
...Beloved Country, into a kind of choral drama. It tells of an old Negro's search for his errant son, who has killed a great white champion of the Negro race, of the boy's repentance and death, and of the symbolic coming-together of the two stricken fathers...
Actually the terms to Kaiser are fairly stiff. For the $44.4 million, RFC required 1) a lien on all physical assets of K-F, 2) a guaranty for $15 million of the loan by two other Kaiser companies "who must also put up stock collateral having a market value of at least $10 million, and 3) a lien for $10 million of the loan on a fixed reserve of unsold autos...