October 19, 1953 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day

Information Bulletin No. 27 from the Federation of American Scientists discussing the "Kelly Report on Functions and Operations of the Bureau of Standards." [Filed under LP Science: Box 14.023, Folder 23.4]

Letter From LP to Prof Sir L. Bragg RE: returns the letters and materials about Anne-Lise Haenni. Says she would be disinterested to come to Pasadena because she is interested in fields of Biochemistry that they are not working on there. Also, the "Institute does not very often admit women as graduate students." Intended to give her a research assistant position but not as a candidate for a degree, gives some names of other Universities that might interest Miss Haenni. Thanks for the book King Solomon's Ring.

Letter from K.S. Pitzer, Dean of the College of Chemistry, U.C. Berkeley to LP RE: requests that LP write a letter in support of a "Dick Powell" for promotion to full professorship at Caltech. [Letter from LP to Dean K. S. Pitzer February 12, 1953, letter from LP to Dean Pitzer October 22, 1953] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #308, Folder #7 (Pitzer, Kenneth)].

Letter from LP to Dr. Joseph S. Lukesh of Knolls Atomic Power Lab., General Electric Co. RE: writes that he has read Dr. Lukesh's manuscript on metals and it seems that his idea about the valence bonds in the metals is a good one. Goes on make additional suggestions. [Letter from Dr. Lukesh to LP October 12, 1953, letter of response from Dr. Lukesh to LP October 28, 1953] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #218, Folder #9 (Lukesh, Jeseph S.)].

Letter from LP to Dr. R.C. Gibbs, National Research Council, RE: LP gives a favorable recommendation of Richard Ogg. [In reply to letter from Gibbs to LP]. [Filed under LP Science: 14.028, Folder 28.1].

Letter from LP to Peter Pauling [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.041, Folder #41.7]

19 October 1953

Dear Peter:

I have been hoping to hear from you, and to learn how you are getting along. We had a letter from Sidney, in which he said that he lives next door to you now, but that he never sees you, because you are in the laboratory all of the time.

Mama and I have been taking our shots - typhoid, paratyphoid, and cholera. We have the third sets of shots to take next Friday. The reactions have not been serious, although for a few days I felt that they were very serious - since last Saturday I have suffered from a terribly sensitive rash that had broken out on my left shoulder, arm, and neck - that is, the left side of the neck and head. When I began suffering also from intermittent pain around the heart I called Dr. Lippman, who rushed over to check up on me. He found out at once that there was nothing wrong with my heart, and also that I was not suffering a reaction from the injections, but had rather come down with an attack of herpes soster, which has the common name shingles. This is a virus infection of the nerve endings, and it usually attacks only certain main nerves in the body. If these are the nerves that innervate the region in the neighborhood of the belt, then the region around the waist is especially inflamed and sensitive - this is the reason for the name of shingles, from the Latin word cingulum, for belt. I am being attacked in nerves higher up in the body, and only on the left side. Nothing can be done about it.

I am looking forward to seeing you. I am, you know, going to Israel in a week, and I am planning to return by way of England, and spend one day there. I am to arrive at the airport in London at 12:55 P.M., El Al Israel No. 217, on Friday 6 November. I shall take the book in to the terminal, and if you are there I shall proceed with you to any destination you select. If you are not there I shall take the train to Cambridge, and hunt you up. I must then leave the next day, in time to catch BOAC No. 509 leaving London at 8:00 P.M.

I enclose the check for 1 November.

Crellin and I went over to the dock last week, and got the Porsche, which I have been driving around.

[Linus Pauling]

Letter from Lester Kieft of Bucknell University to LP RE: asks LP to comment on the progress of one of their recent graduates who is now doing graduate work in chemistry at Caltech. Also asks LP if he can suggest how they might improve their undergraduate curriculum. [Letter of response from LP to Mr. Kieft October 27, 1953] [Filed under K: Correspondence 1953, Box #200, Folder #18]

Letter from Lewis Pino to Beatrice Wulf, RE: Pino offers Wulf some travel suggestions that should make it easy for LP to get to Meadville after his trip to Israel. [Wulf’s letter October 16, 1953] [Filed under LP Speeches: (Speeches by Linus Pauling, 1953), Box 1953s, Folder 1953s.16]

Letter from Mansoor ul Hassan to LP RE: in reference to LP's theory of antibody formation, Mr. Hassan asks for LP's comments on an approach in vitro. [Letter of response from LP to Mr. Hassan October 23, 1953] [Filed under H: Correspondence 1953, Box #166, Folder #4]

Letter from Paul F. Hirschfelder to Mr. Monroe H. Hess Jr. cc: LP RE: thanks Mr. Hess for his letter and goes on in a lengthy manner to discuss how the Golden Rule Foundation and Mr. Hess personally "could make use of the Human Rights' Capitalism on behalf of mankind." [Filed under H: Correspondence 1953, Box #166, Folder #4]

Letter from Stephen H. Stackpole, Carnegie Corporation of New York to L.A. DuBridge RE: Two university vice-chancellors traveling to Caltech, and one interested in seeing the Chemistry Division. [Letter of response from DuBridge to Stackpole October 22, 1953] [Filed under: LP Biographical, Box 1.030, Folder 30.4]

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