Biochemist Selman Waksman Imagines a Life Shaped by Loss
The Rutgers microbiology pioneer Selman Waksman recalls his sister's diphtheria death in a Ukrainian village and credits family memory with guiding his quest. He rose from poverty to study at Rutgers and California, discovering streptomycin in 1942 and earning the Nobel Prize in 1952.
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U S Action Plan Outlined During Suez Crisis
Washington reports that the joint chiefs of staff maintain ready plans for diverse actions from nuclear war to Lebanon deployments. Admiral James Holloway will command the specified Middle East forces, with C-124 transports and a Sixth Fleet capable of independent operation to support NATO and respond to Mediterranean incidents.
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Lightning Kills Motorist and Helper Near Greenup Ill
A motorist, Mrs. Orville Livingston of Los Angeles, and a traveling salesman, Glenn Hartman of New Carlisle Ind., were killed by a lightning strike while assisting a stuck car on U.S. 40 near Greenup Illinois. The Livingston daughter Jeannette, 4, was seriously burned. Mr. Livingston and another salesman escaped.
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Orville Livingston
Los Angeles
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Illinois
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Glenn Hartman
New Carlisle
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Cedar Rapids School Board accepts four resignations and fills posts
The Cedar Rapids Board of Education approved resignations of three teachers Muriel Crum Marcia Jo Berd and Karin Hedlin for 1958 59 and appointed six new teachers Vera Anderson Louise Moe Lorraine Lieberman Kenneth Cameron Ronald Shirm and Louise Wagner. They also voted to upgrade the administration building telephone system and retain legal counsel Donnelly Lynch and Dallas for a bond tax appeal. William Wolleat authorized to connect a sewer line at Erskine school for 1129 60. A National Data Processing Corporation census report for 1958 was filed.
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Louise Moe
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Kenneth Cameron
Ronald Shirm
Louise Wagner
Washington High School
Donnelly, Lynch and Dallas
Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Company
William Wolleat
Erskine School
Thirty-eighth Street
Wolleat
National Data Processing Corporation
Communist party secretary calls Lebanon troop action imperialist
Eugene Dennis national secretary of the Communist party wired President Eisenhower that his dispatch of troops to Lebanon was an act of aggressive imperialistic intervention.
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Communist Party
Eisenhower
Lebanon
On Broadway with Walter Winchell and Coast Gossip
A collage of Hollywood and Washington tidbits notes J Edgar Hoover dieting, speeches before the Bar Association, Alaska statehood jokes, NBC’s Matinee Theatre spend, musical chart gossip, Marilyn Monroe hair news, Roberta Sherwood praise, London fashion flares, and social pages. Special to The Gazette reports Fayette County WCTU officers re elected with West Union leaders.
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Irving Aufman
J. K. Lasser
Alaska
West Union
Jason Bailey
Fayette
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Fayette County
Marion Gee
Jesse Guyer
Hugo Hackmann
Ozzie Nelson Hosts Practical Joker on Channel 1
Ozzie Nelson copes with a practical joker segment airing on Channel 1 at 7 30 Wednesday night in a light daytime style program segment for viewers.
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