McCluskie (1930), Robertson (1930), Francis (1936), and Knowles, Das Gupta and Sen (1936) have noted the occurrence of Spirillum minus in the naturally-infected mouse, Mus musculus. The last-named workers cited an incident in which a wrong diagnosis of rat-bite fever was established on the basis of discovery of spirilla in a white mouse inoculated with the blood of a patient suffering from prol...

18 Hecht, S., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 23, 227 (1937). 14 Federov, N. T., C. R. Acad. Sci. (URSS), 24, 696 (1939). 15 Crozier, W. J., and Holway, A. H., to be described elsewhere. 16 Steinhardt, J., Jour. Gen. Physiol., 20, 185 (1936-1937). 17 Hecht, S., Peskin, J. C., and Patt, M., Ibid., 22, 7 (1938-1939). 18 Crozier, W. J., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 22, 412 (1936); a fuller account of this matter...

Since 1935 several reports have dealt with the antistreptolysin-O (ASO) titre in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The mean and the upper ASO values were first established in a group of normal subjects and in patients with no history of recent streptococcal illness, and subsequently the distribution of the ASO titres was recorded in patients suffering from RA. Table I summarizes the results of Blair a...

Higher serum immunoglobulin (Ig) levels are usually observed in females more than in males of several mammalian species, including man. Females also show a quantitatively and qualitatively enhanced capacity to produce antibodies after immunization (1-7). Moreover, during their fertile period, women have remarkably higher incidences of autoimmune diseases (8, 9). On the other hand, reports exist...

Tomorrow afternoon nt 3:00 o'clock ;it Ridgelielcl park flic State college diamond men go into swing with the Bard college vars'ivy us their guests. This will be the opener of an eightgnnie schedule for the 193(1 season. During the past week the Stntc men have been lining sonic intensive practice nt the Ridgelielcl ilinmond under the supervision of Couch Goewoy. This year showed one of tin Inrg...

Griflin, Miicl I Grossman, I'liyllls Iliiimncrsloy, Doris Ililili'iilirand. Elsie Hobble, Helen Holier. Norberl Humphreyi .leuiine .lillsnn, Irene Kaluldjlmi, M. Kane, Mary Kapp, Diiiuli Keicliiiin, George Kline, Grace Kolllcr, Henjaiiiin I' (If HWli l.aulie. Nina Lnurensso, Irene Levllie, Dora Lewis. Allen Lewis, Janet l.i.Di. Helen McCiinvillc, Cliorh MucDiiniiltl. ('. MncDoniilil, M. MeMille...

Soaring executive compensation during the past two decades has sparked an interest in CEO and other top management pay. We add a long-term perspective to this trend by constructing the first panel dataset to follow the compensation of top executives in large firms from 1936 to the present. The average real value of total compensation experienced three distinct phases: a sharp decline during Wor...