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...Government House, chanting hoarsely: "The vaccine is ours!'' They were advanced tuberculosis patients, who had escaped from Buenos Aires' four big contagious hospitals. A few-dozen lepers had joined them. What they cried for was a new tuberculosis "cure," developed by a 40-year-old scientist named Jesús Pueyo Rodriguez...
Unobtrusively last year into Dr. Seifriz' laboratory glided a fragile, gracious, 27-year-old Japanese scientist, Noburo Kamiya. This gifted young man had done postgraduate work in botany at Tokyo's Imperial University, was studying at Giessen in Germany in the fateful summer of 1939. When Germany invaded Poland, the Japanese Government ordered Kamiya to get out. Not stopping for books or clothing, he left posthaste for the U. S. by way of Hamburg and Bergen. He wrote to Dr. Seifriz, asking if he could go to work in his laboratory. Seifriz welcomed him. "First thing...
...Dallwig describes himself as "a lawyer by profession, a businessman by accident, and a scientist by remote control." He used to sell insurance but has given that up almost entirely, still makes money from a special loose-leaf notebook which he invented for insurance salesmen. One day in 1935, oppressed by business cares and seeking distraction, he dropped into the museum, listened to a stock lecturer. When it was over he found that his cares had fallen away. He went to about 100 more lectures, began to bone up on geology, anthropology, mineralogy, meteoritics, zoology, paleontology...
...never swears nor smiles on a football field, has a simple formula for winning games: "Leave nothing to chance." Cornell's remarkable timing, brilliant deception and smooth execution of assignments are the result of intelligence but also of drill. With the meticulousness of a scientist, Snavely has moving pictures taken of every move his players make. He spends the first three days of each week poring over slow-motion pictures of the previous Saturday's game, sends his players long letters analyzing every play, pointing out each one's errors, how they can be avoided. Cornell hired...
...FACE OF THE VERDICT-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). Dr. Priestley, scientist, again works with Supt.Hanslet and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn. Major Bedworthy is drowned near Blacksand. Accident, says the jury. Maybe, says his friend and neighbor. Priestley plows around in rubber boots among motives of sex and money...