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Died. Dr. Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey, 84, Kansas University's professor emeritus of chemistry; in Lawrence, Kans. Among his students, who called themselves "Bailey's Boys," were Elmer Verner Mc-Collum, vitamin authority, and the late Edwin Emery Slosson, director of Science Service...
...serene Gottingen the university faculty last week talked pridefully concerning knowledge and its fruits, pointed particularly at sage Professor Adolf Windaus and two of his scholastic offshoots. Professor Windaus, 1928 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, was first man to crystallize a vitamin-Vitamin D, in 1931. The same year one of his former pupils, Dr. Ottar Rygh, announced that he had crystallized Vitamin C, the anti-scurvy ingredient of food. Last week another Windaus student, young Dr. Fritz Micheel, who has become a Gottingen professor, reported that he had analyzed the chemical nature of Vitamin C. The three items, reinforced with...
...Vitamin C occurs in raw lemons, cabbages, oranges, lettuce, grapefruit, green peppers, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, spinach. It seems to be identical with hexuronic acid which Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, able Hungarian biochemist, discovered in cabbage leaves and adrenal glands. With knowledge of Vitamin C's chemical structure in hand, the Gottingen men expect speedily to synthesize that vitamin, as Hindus have synthesized Vitamin B, Americans Vitamin...
Students at Boston University were chattering last week about something new -"endowed salads" and "vitamin tickets." In the two university cafeterias 300 co-eds could chomp a red apple a day, gratis. On each table there were free bowls of beets, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, turnips and cabbage, in olive oil. Digesting these, the young ladies might stride about wintry Boston, well fortified with healthful vitamins...
...Boston alumnae was organized to provide free luncheon books to a small number of girls. Another paid $25 weekly for free extras in the cafeterias. And anyone who wished to could help further to endow a bowl of oiled beets or red apples, simply by buying a $5 vitamin ticket...