Word: biochemists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comedian "Rochester" roles not humiliating to the Negro race.) Self-made, sloganeering Henry T. Ewald, president of Detroit's great Campbell-Ewald agency, got 1940"s gold medal for a distinguished career in advertising. For his work with sex hormones and vitamin K (which clots blood, stops hemorrhages), Biochemist Edward A. Doisy of St. Louis University's Medical School won the Willard Gibbs Medal for 1941. The Chicago Symphony Orchestral Association gave $500 to Carl Eppert, winner of its contest for U. S. composers, whose Two Symphonic Impressions set out to illustrate in music the role of vitamins...
...University of Pennsylvania is peacock-proud of its brain collection (at the University-sponsored Wistar Institute), picks its pickled prizes with discrimination. Last week it blundered. The University of Pennsylvania Today announced the addition of famed British Biochemist J. B. S. Haldane's brain, meant that of his late father, Biologist John Scott Haldane. When last heard from, hulking, shaggy, tweedy John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was very much alive, hard at work in his University of London chair, editing the London Daily Worker...
...Laszlo Havas, a Hungarian biochemist working at the University of Brus sels in Belgium, found that colchicine affects animals as well as plants. Certain bitterlings (small fish) acquire bright red tints when ready to breed. Dr. Havas discovered that the change can also be caused by colchicine, though more slowly; and that colchicine speeded up the action of the sex hormones...
...Charles Earl Sando, 45, U. S. Department of Agriculture biochemist, gets rather excitable when he has two cocktails in succession. One evening last week he had three. But it was quite an occasion. Philadelphia's Franklin Institute had opened the first big public showing of Dr. Sando's neat method of preserving biological specimens (and almost anything else, for that matter) in blocks of transparent, synthetic resin...
Like Secretary Wallace, Biochemist Sando* is an enthusiastic boomerang thrower, and he has made some fine boomerangs from Plexiglas for the Wallace group of boomerangers. The first ones were transparent, and so hard to see that, when they boomeranged, they sometimes bopped the thrower. Now Dr. Sando makes his boomerangs of red Plexiglas...