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...experts rattled the test tubes of research labs this month with claims of far-reaching discoveries about the cause of cancer and, in particular, the mechanism of leukemia, cancer's blood brother. The biggest claim was filed by Nobelman Otto Warburg, head of Berlin's famed Max Planck Institute for Cell Physiology. Said Warburg, as translated in Science: ¶ The cancer process begins when cells are injured by being starved of oxygen...
...acknowledged master in the field, Warburg, 72, brooked no quibble. "The era in which [my theory] could be disputed is over, and no one today can doubt that we understand the origin of cancer cells." There were disputers nonetheless. One of them Copenhagen's Dr. Jorgen Kieler, told a leukemia conference at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit: "This concept cannot be accepted without reservations." Dr. Kieler showed that under certain conditions leukemic cells "breathed" at the same rate as normal cells. This contradicts Warburg's belief that the respiration of all cancer cells has been irreversibly damaged...
...William made a public announcement that got his picture in the New York Times. He reported the creation of a private world bank, the first of its kind, named the Transoceanic Development Corp., Ltd. Sponsored by Kuhn, Loeb, First Boston Corp., and London's S. G. Warburg, the corporation has 27 participating firms famed in the banking world. Among them: Credit Suisse, David and Laurance Rockefeller, Sal Oppenheim Jr. & Cie. (Cologne), N. M. Rothschild & Sons (London), Deutsche Bank Group (Frankfurt), Amsterdamsche Bank (Holland). The bank's purpose is to buy equity shares in foreign enterprises and furnish risk...
Looking ahead to graduation, the Class of '30 elected James Roosevelt as treasurer; Douglas Adams as poet; Albert Churchill as Ivy Orator; Wallace Harper, James Barrett, and Gardner Lewis as Marshals; Edward Warburg as Orator; Bernard Hanighen as Chorister; and Otto Schoen-Rene as Odist...
Following the exercises in Sanders, a luncheon for members and their guests, excluding women, will be held in the Warburg Room of the Fogg Museum. Members of other chapters of Phi Beta Kappa are invited to attend the luncheon, if they have made prior reservations...