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...Howe has earned international fame for his research on the effect of vitamin deficiencies on teeth. Past president of the American Dental Association and currently director of the Forsyth Dental Infirmary, he is Thomas Alexander Forsyth Professor of Dental Science, Emeritus...
...Indian-born physiologist and biochemist, director of research for the Lederle Laboratories (American Cyanamid Co.); in Pearl River, N.Y. As a Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives, teropterin and aminopterin (now being used to fight cancer), directed research that produced the new antibiotic, aureomycin (a cure for serious infections untouched by penicillin or streptomycin...
Semper Paratus. In Provincetown, Mass., police took a second look at George Ash Gaines, arrested him, extracted sun glasses, vitamin pills, stage money, scissors, surgical throat lights and 212 other odds & ends from the two suits he was wearing...
...hunger and disease. Cabled TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin after a look at the city: "You see the marks of the struggle in the taut, unsmiling faces on the streets. You see it in the meagerly equipped hospitals where acute tuberculosis has doubled. Rickets, twilight blindness, beriberi and other vitamin-deficiency diseases have become common...
...people's dining room)* off the Plaza Espana, in Caracas, diners smacked their lips over a favorite dish: rice and black beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain black bean...