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Died. Dr. George Washington Carver, most famed Negro scientist; in Tuskegee, Ala. His age was uncertain: he was born of slaves about 1864. Coal-black, sad-eyed, fragile, white-polled, he spent most of his life in his Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into...
...Thin. The American Bureau for Medical Aid to China (now part of United China Relief) is represented in China by Dr. George W. Bachman. Though 52-year-old Dr. Bachman speaks in platitudes ("I am looking out for a way to help the war effort"), he is a topnotch scientist with a talent for organization. From 1918 to 1922 he lived in China, teaching biology at Huping College. When the Bureau sent him to Chungking last April he had for eleven years been director of Columbia University's famed School of Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rico...
Book & Author. It has remained for a young woman poet,* author of an earlier poem in his honor, to write the first full-length biography of Willard Gibbs. (She explains, "The world of the poet ... is the scientist's world. Their claim on systems is the same claim. Their writings anticipate each other; welcome each other; indeed embrace. As Lucretius answered Epicurus, Gibbs answers Whitman. . . .") The result is a book frequently verging on the apocalyptical in language; a Moby Dick of a book in intention and intimations, touching on "the sum of things...
...that from ordinary black & white pictures on photographic film he could get the colors of the original scenes. Greying, Ohio-born Charles Arthur Birch-Field is a successful Manhattan artist, retired head of a large advertising agency (BirchField & Co.), trained at the Cleveland School of Art,* son of a scientist and Westinghouse partner. Last week he demonstrated his fabulous-sounding infant process...
Leading the issue is Harold J. Laski's devastating criticism of the complacent "leave-it-until-we-win" school of thought. "The eminent English political scientist pulls no punches in charging that American and British Tories have a static conception of victory. Laski holds that the Nazi revolution can be permanently defeated only by stronger revolutionary idea, and that the promise of an economy of plenty is the only truly revolutionary concept which the United States has to offer. Plenty, however, is to Professor Laski manifestly impossible in a set of economic institutions best fitted to profit-yielding scarcity. Changing...