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...hope for increased production is a new and speedier mold process developed by Stanford University's Bacteriologist Charles E. Clifton. Suggested by the method of making vinegar by dripping alcohol through wood shavings inoculated with bacteria, Clifton's laboratory experiments show that penicillin can be made by dribbling a mold-growing solution through shavings inoculated with the mold. In the present commercial process the mold grows in jars without mechanical help. Clifton's process would result in continuous production...
Married. Winifred Stilwell, 25, daughter of Lieut. General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell; and Army Captain William Ellis Cox, ,25; in her family's Carmel, Calif, home...
...They Did It. T.I.S. was founded on a lesson from World War I: infantry tactics and training must be kept rigorously up to date. Prewar alumni and one time instructors include George Marshall, Omar Bradley, "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, many another silver-starred Army name. Commandant for the last 16 months has been Major General Leven C. Allen, a non-West Pointer who led a machine-gun company in the A.E.F., has a thumping reputation as a teaching soldier. Head of the academic department is Brigadier General George H. Weems, a hard-bitten Tennesseean, who got his nickname of "Daddy...
Such was the straight-faced advice sent out last week by the Department of Agri culture. The department listed wild plants which can be put to a "useful purpose": lamb's-quarters, plantain, poke, purslane, wild chicory, dock. They all taste good with vinegar or cooked in bacon fat, said the department; they contain vitamins A and B, and iron...
...Chief were Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault. Straightway, the shrewdest Flying Tiger of them all got the General William L. Mitchell Air Trophy to show to his wife and eight kids (one serving on land, two at sea, three in the air). To "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell came a bid from his Peking-born daughter, Alison, 22, to her New York show of ink paintings in the Chinese style...