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...British Foreign Office's censors are two retired diplomats: 1) Sir Robert MacLeod Hodgson, 70; 2) Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare,* 62. Said Sir Robert at his small wooden desk at the Ministry of Information: "They think we are interfering old fogies, but we are not. Our job is to see that stories are not cabled that are likely to stir up discord between the Allies...
...MACLEOD New York City
...what it loses in fluid song, characterizes all the better poems of the issue. Helen Wieselburg's "Starway," and Creighton Gilbert's "War Poem" again display the advantages as well as the price of the poet's surrender of impersonal distance, while the works of Arthur Blair and Norman Macleod show the inevitable failure of the static poetic effect when applied to less immediate non-intellectual topics which cannot sustain intensity...
...Macleod retaliated by giving Collip half of his share. Macleod is dead now, and time softened the animosity between Collip and Banting. Said Dr. Collip last week: ''I have lost a close personal friend." Few years ago Banting was invited by a U. S. university to deliver a two-hour discourse on diabetes. "Hell," he observed, "for all I know about diabetes 15 minutes would be enough." He had known even less than that about it the October night in 1920 when he sat down to brush up for a lecture to students next day. He knew...
Banting went to Macleod, asked for ten dogs and an assistant for eight weeks. He got them. He and Charles Herbert Best, still a medical student but an expert on blood sugar measurement, went feverishly to work in a hot, shabby little laboratory heavy with the smell of anesthetic. Many more dogs than ten were necessary; in fact, one of the key dogs of the search was No. 92. But one day a miracle happened. A dog which the experimenters had turned into a diabetic by removing its pancreas lay dying, unable to get to its feet. They shot some...