December 27, 1957 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Check from AHP to Safeway Stores for $25.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.1]

Check from LP & AHP to Mrs. Ray Evans for $5,000.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Check Registers, 1957-1962), Box #4.076, Folder #76.1]

Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Professor A. Neuberger, Department of chemical Pathology, St. Mary's Hospital RE: Sends a corrected copy of LP's article "Factors affecting the structure of hemoglobins and other proteins," to be included in the compilation Neuberger is putting together entitled, "Structure of Proteins." Requests reprints of LP's chapter of the monograph if available. [Letter to LP December 20, 1957] [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Articles: 1957a2.3]

Letter from Dr. Elmer R. Noble, University of California, Santa Barbara College, to LP RE: Invites LP to address the Western College Association Biannual Meeting on March 13 or 14 on the topic of "What Can We Expect from Our High Schools?" Remembers with pleasure LP's lecture last spring for the World Affairs Institute. [Letter from Beatrice Wulf to Elmer R. Noble March 7, 1958] [Filed under LP Speeches: 1958s.7]

Letter from Dr. John Kendrew, Cavendish Laboratory to LP RE: Settles on a date to give his lecture in the general chemistry class at Cal Tech and picks a title. [Letter from LP to Dr. Kendrew November 22, 1957, Letter from Dr. Kendrew to LP December 3, 1957, Letter from LP to Dr. Kendrew December 18, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Kendrew, John, 1946-1948, 1951, 1954-1958, 1960-1961, 1966), #197.16]

Letter from J. W. Cook to LP, RE: Encloses his signature for the petition but explains that he was hesitant to sign because he doesn't like to get involved in political things, but once he saw that the petition was calling for an international agreement and not unilateral action, he couldn't refuse to sign. Adds that he is in complete sympathy with LP's views, and that his doubts related solely to the means. Labeled number 156. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]

Letter from Jerry Cooper, to LP. RE: Asks for information on elements with the atomic numbers 99, 100, 101, & 102. Would like to know where they belong on the periodic table. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1958) #75.1]

Letter from Karimullah to LP, RE: Karimullah is writing to inform LP that his letter addressed to Dr. Bashir Ahmad is undeliverable as Ahmad died of a heart attack in March. [Filed under LP Peace: (An Appeal by Scientists to the Governments and People of the World, 1957-1959), Box #5.002, Folder #2.1]

Letter from LP to Dr. I. Kapastinsky RE: Thanks him for his letter and states how much he and AHP enjoyed their visit. Informs him of his new research, working on a theory about restricted rotation about carbon-carbon single bonds. [Note from Dr. Kapastinsky December 12, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (K: Correspondence, 1957), #201.1]

Letter from LP to Dr. Sydney F. Thomas, Palo Alto Medical Clinic, RE: Thanks Thomas for his October 21st letter and tells him that he has read the article he mentioned by Tashian and Gartler with interest. Says that he wishes he knows how reliable their determinations are. [Letter from Thomas to LP, October 21, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963), Box #411, Folder #411.2]

Letter from LP to Silvio Bezzi, RE: LP thanks Bezzi very much for the set of 32 copies of the appeal along with hundreds of signatures. LP is glad to have so many signatures from leading scientists in Italy. [Filed under LP Peace: (An Appeal by Scientists to the Governments and People of the World, 1957-1959), Box #5.002, Folder #2.1]

Letter from LP, to Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, President, National Academy of Sciences, The Rockefeller Institute RE: Encloses a copy of a letter sent to the State Department on behalf of Professor Orekhovich not being allowed to go to Pasadena. States to Dr. Bronk that he thinks it is bad propaganda on the part of the State Department and makes the US look like a police state that does not allow scientists to confer with other scientists and asks if there is something Dr. Bronk can do about this problem. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., 1955-1967, 1970, 1977-1979, 1984, 1986-1988), #7.5]

Letter from LP, to the Secretary of State RE: Protests Professor Orekhovich being prevented from visiting Cal Tech and states that not only is the US harmed by this action because his work would have helped scientists at the Institute studying proteins but that it also gives the impression that scientists in America are not free to confer with other scientists about their work. Also protests the discrimination against Cal Tech but not against other universities that Orekhovich was allowed to visit. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., 1955-1967, 1970, 1977-1979, 1984, 1986-1988), #7.5]

Letter from Miss Gemma Fastiggi, Actuarial Department of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, to LP, RE: Encloses a check for $979.91 for the cash surrender value of LP's decreasing Life-1 insurance policy and tells LP that the policy was cancelled as of December 13th. Handwritten note asks, "Shall I deposit in commercial acct?" LP replies, "yes." [Letter from LP the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, November 19, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1956-1963), Box #411, Folder #411.2]

Letter from Narciso Cordero to LP RE: Says that he will not sign the Appeal, and gives his reasons for not signing. Handwritten note on bottom right corner, "No." [Filed under LP Safe Contents: Drawer 2, Folder 2.001]

Letter from Newton Freire-Maia to LP RE: Sends LP another copy of the Appeal that he just got back from a friend. Labeled number 32. [Letter from Freire-Maia to LP December 18, 1957] [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]

Letter from Regino Navarro to LP RE: Says that after receiving LP's letter about the Appeal he tried to get a feel for what scientists in his country were thinking about it. Says that most people would not sign the Appeal because they didn't trust the Russians to stop testing if an agreement were signed. Feels that this would put democratic countries at a disadvantage. Handwritten note at bottom, "doesn't sign." [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 2 Folder 2.001]\

Letter from Stanley J. Cristol, University of Colorado, to LP. RE: Would appreciate being informed whether the acknowledgment is satisfactory. [Letter from Cristol to LP November 8, 1957] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1958) #75.1]

Letter from W.E. LeGus Clark to LP, RE: Tells him that he has signed the appeal and that he will send it to him later. Expresses his concern that unless a large number of prominent scientists sign, the petition will be worse than useless. Handwritten notes near bottom right, "FRS" and "signs." Labeled as number 160. [Filed under LP Safe Contents, Drawer 3 Folder 3.004]

Letter from Walden C. Cummins to L. A. DuBridge RE: Encloses shares of Standard Oil Company of Indiana stock at the request of Dr. and Mrs. Linus Pauling, Jr. States that they wish to remain anonymous and for the funds to be used for research under the direction of LP. [Letter from L.A. DuBridge to Friends December 31, 1957] [Filed under LP Safe Contents: Drawer , Folder 2.006]

Memo from LP to R. W. Lippman RE: Discusses a paper in the American Journal of Human genetics on genetic implications of certain physiological processes affecting the metabolism of phenylalanine in man. [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.088, Folder #88.13]

Note from Dorothy Hodgkin to LP RE: Thanks him for the enjoyable visit to Pasadena, expresses a hope to come again when his work on lysozymes is finished, complements his research group. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot, 1947, 1951-1953, 1955, 1957, 1959-1961, 1963, 1965, 1967-1968, 1971, 1974, 1980-1983, 1988, 1991), #159.12]

Note from LP to himself RE: Discusses ditertiary arsine-metal carbonyl complexes of Groups Vi and VII. [Filed under LP Science: Box #10.003, Folder #3.10]

Note from LP to himself. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., 1955-1967, 1970, 1977-1979, 1984, 1986-1988), #7.5]

27 December 1957

When I heard from Jerry Gross (I think it was on 12 December) that Orekhovich would not be allowed to come to Pasadena, I telephoned Mr. Lawrence Mitchell, in the State Department, Executive 3-3111, Ext. 5991, and urged him to arrange by the end of the week for Qrekhovich to come to Pasadena on Tuesday 17 December, to give his lecture "Pro-collagen as a Special Group of Connective Tissue Proteins." He said that Berkeley is open, but that Pasadena, San Francisco, and much of Los Angeles are closed to anybody holding a Russian passport. He was not very optimistic - he said that if the Department of State were to make exceptions, then the regulation preventing Russian visitors from going to certain places in the United States would have little effect in applying pressure on the Russian Government. I said that it seemed to me that there was discrimination against the California Institute of Technology. He said that there was no special reason for having Pasadena on the closed list, and that it had been put there only last month.

Linus Pauling

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