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ran'out of supplies of registration cards, programs, abstracts, badges—in fact they ran out of about everything under the sun but chemists and chemical engineers. Chairman Reilly, we suspect, had a copy of President Midgley's speech well in advance of the meeting for Accent on Youth certainly dominated the selection of committee members. And they came through with flying colors. For those who are statistically minded, there were 521 papers on the program. The Division of Biological Chemistry had the biggest list, with 83, followed closely by Organic, with 80. There were 924 different authors' name entries in the author index. The most talkative individuals were Frank C. Whitmore, who was coauthor of 11 contributions given in New York, 10 of them before the Division of Organic Chemistry, and H. Marks, whose name appeared 8 times on the program. Correction please! Dr. Whitmore actually appeared in person only once.
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Vol. 21 (1943) ; on pages 103,131. 258, 337, 361, 398, on the insert in the March 25 issue facing page 446, and on pages 626,681,688.732, 982,1357* and 1676 of CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS, Vol. 22 (1944); and
on pages 290, 385, 777, and 869 of Vol. 36 of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.
At the risk of being accused of boasting, we quote from a letter received from the secretary of one of the scientific organizations: We knew about your New York meeting—somebody did a very swell public relations job on it, as evidenced by the humanization of the news about the meeting that went out over the radio. I t represents a great advance over the stuff that used to sound like something poured out of retorts and test tubes ana disguised under ponderous technical terms. The public will soon begin to suspect that technologists are human beings if other societies follow your lead.
The close personal friendship of Ket and Midge for some 80 years is known, of course, to most chemists, and yet Kettering's address at the general meeting was the first time that President Midgley had the opportunity of formally introducing "The Boss" to an audience.
These are encouraging words denoting progress, and to James T. Grady, Managing Editor of the ACS News Service, goes the major credit for humanizing chemical developments. Although bowed down with grief at the loss of Mrs. Grady, he was in the Press Room from morning to night "mothering" the press representatives, performing 10 tasks at one time without so much as batting an eye.
We are seriously considering an appeal to the Department of Justice 1 and the Federal Trade Commission 1 seeking relief from unfair competition
from front page developments. The list printed below shows the kind of competition the ACS News Service has faced during recent meetings:
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