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Lyons was brought before Judge John C. Knox at the request of Emanuel Bloch, attorney for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atom spies sentenced to death (TIME, April 16). The Government, said Bloch, was conspiring to break down Mrs. Rosenberg and get a "false" confession from her -and Columnist Lyons was part of the conspiracy. The reason Bloch thought so was that since February (shortly before their trial) no less than 20 "leaks" on the case had appeared in "The Lyons Den," syndicated in 102 papers. Sample item: "If [the convicted Rosenbergs] talk, they still can save themselves . . ." Attorney Bloch wanted...
Farfetched Fables, which reads like an outline of another Back to Methuselah, is Shaw's idea of what will happen after the world's present civilization is destroyed-not by the atom bomb (which Shaw thought would not be used), but by an improved version of an old-fashioned poison gas. As Shaw saw it, men will go onward & upward until they learn how to live on air, to get the same sensual pleasure from the pursuit of pure knowledge which their gross fathers got from the pursuit of other things, and finally to take leave of their...
Like other steroid hormones (e.g., testosterone, androsterone, progesterone), cortisone is a tough chemical customer. Its molecules are built around the steroid nucleus" (TIME, Jan. 29) which has three six-atom carbon rings and one five-atom ring in the proper spatial arrangement. To build such a molecule from scratch was considered so difficult that few chemists ever hoped to accomplish...
Woodward started out with orthoto-luidine, an oily liquid extracted from coal tar, whose molecule has one six-carbon ring and one methyl (CH3) group. Step by step he attached more atoms, carefully choosing his reactions so that the atoms would fall in the proper places. After some 20 laboratory steps, his 22 Ibs. of original raw materials were reduced to 1/28 oz. of a genuine steroid. The compound's molecule has the steroid nucleus with an oxygen atom attached at one end and a carbome-thoxy (C02CH3) group at the other...
Chemist Woodward emphasized the fact that his new substance is not yet cortisone. He must add another oxygen atom in the proper spot, and must exchange his carbomethoxy group for a dihydroxyacetone sidechain. In the process it will also be necessary to alter the double bonds that now join some of the atoms in his steroid (see diagram). But Chemist Woodward's cautious colleagues agree that the toughest part of the job seems to be over...