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Kalckar's greatest discovery came in the late 1930s in his study of intermediary metabolism, the complex set of reactions in the body by which food is broken down for energy and materials. With Fritz Lippmann, who received a Nobel Prize for the work, Kalckar presented the first evidence for the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) as a result of biological oxidation...
...menaces afflicting lands less blessed by God and geography. But menaces there now were: missile technologies left in the ashes of the Third Reich and the aggressive ideology of an ally turned archrival. Also, as the supreme world power to emerge from the war, we nourished what Walter Lippmann called "the totally vain notion that if we do not set the world in order, no matter what the price, we cannot live in the world safely." All these factors awakened worries about security and a striving for protective measures, mainly military ones...
Unlike the Olympian detachment that is the traditional pose of Washington columnists, Safire projects a rumpled persona far closer to Walter Matthau's than Walter Lippmann's. His clothes are L.L. Bean, not Savile Row. Safire retains the unbuttoned style, the street-smart diction and the wry-not enthusiasms of a man who happily spent his formative years as a successful public relations flack in New York City. Where other conservative columnists like George Will and William F. Buckley can be precious and predictable, Safire prides himself on his reporting and contrarian thinking. "A column should not be a chore...
...Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel (1980). The "and" in the title is crucial. For biographer Steel illuminates not only the life of his subject, perhaps this century's most illustrious American journalist, but the events he reported and witnessed, on and off the record, from World War I through the agonies of Viet...
Presidential dwarfism, however, is not a recent condition. When F.D.R. ran for President in 1932, Walter Lippmann described him as a "highly impressionable person without a firm grasp of public affairs...