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...BENJAMIN L. CARROLL...
Gold Dust. In American Cyanamid Co.'s Lederle Laboratories at Pearl River, N.Y. another Streptomyces was found to secrete a gold-colored, germ-killing substance. Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar, the discoverer, called this antibiotic aureomycin. First used on human patients at New York's Harlem Hospital by Dr. Louis T. Wright, the "gold dust" worked wonders for victims of lymphogranuloma. Like Chloromycetin, it deals with many of the rickettsias. In treating brucellosis (undulant fever), aureomycin is likely to replace the streptomycin-sulfadiazine combination much used at present...
Married. Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, 77, onetime U.S. ambassador to Portugal (1945-47) and The Netherlands (he resigned last month), goateed younger brother of Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch; and Anne Maria, Baroness Mackay, fortyish, Dutch socialite; he for the second time; in Wyandanch...
...past three years, Manhattan concert-and operagoers have heard plenty of English Composer Benjamin Britten's music (Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned out to hear some Britten music played by the composer himself. As accompanist for English Tenor Peter Pears, who created the leading roles in all of Britten's major operas, "Benjy" proved himself as astute on the platform at the piano as he is in his parlor with a pen. When the nicely varied and nicely performed program of original Brittens, Britten-arranged Purcell and English folk songs...
...first time lean, tweedy Benjamin Britten, 35, had visited the U.S.; as an unknown composer he had lived in & around New York City for three years (1939-42). But it was the first time he had come as a world celebrity...