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...Osgood Hooker...
Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, disclosed late last week the discovery of several new organic compounds which are more potent in the prevention of malaria than either stabrine or quinine and which show permanent curative effects. Speaking at the dedication of the Kresege-Hooker Scientific Library at Wayne University in Detroit, Fieser asserted that the new compounds constitute a new departure in the field of chemotherapy...
...time of the Civil War, the store (which had already moved part way uptown toward its present address at Madison Avenue and 44th Street) was "the largest establishment of its kind in the world." Naturally, Union Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Philip H. Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman and Joseph Hooker campaigned in Brooks Brothers' uniforms. Abraham Lincoln was wearing a Brooks Brothers coat when he was assassinated...
...your mother, then?" "I haven't got one." "Oh, you're a orphan, then; the same as me." And the old hand passed on the news: "He says he's a orphan." "Well, tell the orphan he'll soon be a sailor sick aboard this hooker." But John Masefield's two years on the Conway turned out to be one of the most fascinating periods of his varied life. A few years ago, in another autobiographical chapter called In the Mill (TIME, Aug. 11, 1941), Masefield showed that he could distill romance even from...
...enemy planes drop poison gas bombs on Cambridge and the University, there are no preparations as yet to counteract them, according to George F. Hooker, Cambridge City Engineer in charge of sanitation. Decontamination squads play an important part in the air raid defense of a city, Hooker said, but the Civilian Defense Committee to date has felt that protection against incendiaries was more important...