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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government jobs, there was a painful shortage of iron men with elephant hides. There was no stampede of qualified men for Royall's $15,000 job, or the $10,000 under secretaryship abandoned by William H. Draper. Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan ($15,000) and his Under Secretary W. John Kenney ($10,000) were thinking of leaving, too. There were two $15,000 openings on the Atomic Energy Commission (former Iowa editor W. W. Waymack had left, Physicist Robert Bacher had submitted his resignation). Admiral W. W. Smith's $12,000 chairmanship of the Maritime Commission was also...
Safer Blood. Stockpiling whole blood and plasma is now known to be risky: some recipients get a serious liver disease called homologous serum jaundice. One donor who carries the jaundice virus in his blood might infect a pool given by 5,000 donors. Drs. Frank W. Hartman and George H. Mangun of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital think they have found a way to sterilize the blood and kill the virus without making the blood harmful or useless. They have used nitrogen mustard, a war gas, and are now experimenting with a chemical called dimethyl sulphate. To prove...
...Fred W. ("Lucky") Hooper watched' quietly as a high-heeled man from Texas paced the paddock at Florida's Tropical Park one day last winter. "I'll bet twenty-five on the quarter-horse," barked the Texan. A passerby peeled two tens and a five from his roll and offered to take the bet. "Put that chicken feed back in your pocket," roared the Texan. "I mean twenty-five thousand...
...buffet lunch (courtesy of the Southern Pacific), a woman sword swallower had dropped in from a circus to swallow three swords, and Mayor Fletcher Bowron had read a proclamation making Campbell "mayor of the day." The Chamber of Commerce sent a chamber pot as a good-natured gag, and W. R. Hearst wired his congratulations...
Among the sponsors of the peace conference are: F.O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature; L. A. Richards, University Professor; John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy; John Ciardl, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; Charles W. Duhig '29, Graduate Secretary of Brooks House; and Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond of Hillel House...