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This week in the A.M.A. Journal, a team of Detroit and Chicago researchers, headed by Parke, Davis Virologist Wilton A. Rightsel announced that viruses capable of producing hepatitis in man had been isolated. By carefully regulating temperature, alkalinity and acidity, the researchers had managed to isolate several strains of virus, grow them in tissue culture. What is more, they were able to focus an electron microscope on the viruses, magnify them 53,000 times, and take their picture...
Married. Sir Laurence Olivier, 53; and Joan Plowright, 31, dark-eyed English actress; he for the third time, she for the second; in Wilton, Conn...
...serve in a Cabinet post. Nixon seriously considered quitting Government, but abandoned the idea and told Ike that he preferred to run for Vice President again. Adams was toppled into ignominy in 1958 by the Goldfine affair, and Nixon found firm White House support from Adams' successor, Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, a genial Alabamian, and from ever influential Jim Hagerty...
...Died. Wilton Wade McCrory, 87, frontier-style judge for 31 years on the Texas Criminal District Court bench in San Antonio; of cancer; in San Antonio. Before his retirement in 1954, Judge McCrory delighted many (and infuriated some) Texans with his salty obiter dicta on such subjects as poker (decrying impurities such as lowball), marital infidelity (advising forsaken wives to use the straight razor on their unfaithful husbands), rape ("There's been about as many men raped as gals; we don't have one real rape case a year in this county"), and murder ("Ask anybody if anyone...
...absence of any serious talk of boycotting Japanese products seems to reflect primarily a sophisticated political response on the part of U.S. businessmen. They think that it is against the best interests of the U.S. Says Frank Wilton, vice president of Detroit's large J. L. Hudson Co.: "It would be the worst possible thing from our point of view. We wouldn't gain anything by playing into the hands of a small group of radicals. We need friends in Japan." The Miami News gave the back of its hand to local boycotters, pointed out that "the very...