January 30, 1963 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Letter from Dr. Edward L. Tatum, Rockefeller Institute, to LP RE: Agrees to act asa character witness for LP and requests additional information on the trial. [Letter from LP to Tatum, January 30, 1963, Letter from Hopkins to Hoague, February 5, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Legal: Pauling v. News Syndicate Co., Inc., 1961-1966, 1971: Box #3.020, Folder # 20.2]

Letter from F. Dickens, Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, Middlesex Hospital, to LP RE: Says that a Symposium on Oxygen in the animal organism is being organized jointly for the International Union of Biochemistry and the International Union of Physiological Sciences. The Organizers extend an invitation to LP saying they believe he could give wide and valuable background knowledge of the topic. [Letter from LP to Dickens February 6, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (D: Correspondence), #99.4]

Letter from Gregory Pincus, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, to LP RE: Explains that the possibility of controlling the sex of human infants has not yet been applied and that greater attention needs to be given to the matter before conducting experiments with mammalian sperm. Informs that he recently returned from a meeting of the Ciba Foundation at which Dr. A.S. Parkes discussed the concept of human sex ratios. Suggests that LP or Green get in contact with Parkes. [Letter from LP to Pinus January 25, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence) #142.2]

Letter from John E. Amoore, Biology Department, University of California, to LP RE: Responds to LP’s request for further information on papers written by Amoore. Apologizes for using the word ‘new’ as a part of the theory already proposed by Moncrieff. [Letter from LP to Amoore January 22, 1963, Letter from LP to Amoore February 5, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence), #14.2]

Letter from LP to Arthur Robinson. [Letter from Robinson to LP January 22, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Robinson, Arthur B: Box #331 Folder #331.1]

Brandeis University

Robinson, Arthur B.

Last spring I decided to have four young undergraduate students of chemistry, two from the University of London and two from our Institute, carry on research on the action of chemical substances as anesthetic agents in relation to their physicochemical properties, under the supervision of a Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. William Dove. Dr. Dove and I decided that the detailed supervision of the work should he in the hands of an older undergraduate with superior ability, and after investigation of members of our junior class in chemistry we selected Arthur Robinson. He is an outstandingly able man in experimental chemistry, and his work during the summer was of the highest quality. He is going to supervise another group of students doing research on anesthesia during the earning summer, under my direction.

It is my opinion that in ability he is to be placed in the upper 10 percent of our students. His academic record is not so good—it is average, for our selected group of undergraduate students. Some of his grades are low, but this reflects a temporary lack of Interest or distraction by non-academic activities, and not lack of ability,

I believe that Robinson would be a thorough success as a graduate student in chemistry, and I recommend that you give serious consideration to him for appointment as a graduate assistant or fellow.

Robinson's personal qualities and character are excellent.

Professor of Chemistry

30 January 1963

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

Letter from Rose Chernin, Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign-Born, to LP RE: Invites LP to be the guest speaker at the committee 13th Annual Conference Dinner. [Letter from LP to Chernin February 6, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence), #77.1]

Letter from Ruth Adams to LP RE: Explains that she did not decide to use the Clemens’s review because she felt that it was inadequate. Says she believes that the death of Academician Topchiev was a severe blow to the Pugwash movement. [Letter from LP to Adams February 5, 1963] [Filed under LP Peace: (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1948-1964), Box #3.016, Folder #16.8]

Letter from Walter J. Hartrick, Secretary, 1963 Conference on Education, Faculty and College of Education, The University of British Columbia, to LP RE: Regrets to learn that LP is unavailable to participate in the Summer Conference. [Letter from Hopkins to Hartrick January 21, 1963] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (B: Correspondence), #40.2]

Note from Dr. Herbert Harned to LP RE: Agrees to act as a character witness for LP. Also discusses a paper on lysozymic electrocide [handwriting illegible]. [Letter from LP to Harned, January 24, 1963, Letter from LP to Hoague, February 7, 1963] [Filed under LP Biographical: Legal: Pauling v. News Syndicate Co., Inc., 1961-1966, 1971: Box #3.020, Folder # 20.2]

Reprint, “The Oxford Conference of Non-Aligned Peace Organizations; A Report by Donald Keys and Homer A. Jack.” [Filed under LP Peace: (Oxford Conference, January 4-7, 1963), Box #2.006, Folder #6.4]

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