Word: wieland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tell us, please, did Professor Wieland actually stoop to plagiarism in the heat of his controversy with Secretary Ickes or did TIME'S Science editor err in identifying an apt quotation as an "original composition...
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Yale's Wieland...
Delighted to see my old friend, "Yale's merry old paleobotanist, George Reber Wieland" in TIME (Aug. 30) , I would like to add a story about him which was told me several years ago by one of those present. In 1926 His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, paid a visit to New Haven, and the Yale University authorities, agog over the rare opportunity of entertaining royalty, made preparations to celebrate this happy event with the utmost dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown...
...Carnegie who was bald and Professor Wieland who (at 72) is not once played a joke of mistaken identity on the Carnegie barber who for weeks thereafter boasted that his massages and lotions had made hair grow again on the Carnegie pate...