Letter from Linus Pauling to the American Tourister Company May 21, 1959. Page 1  Larger Images / More Information. 1 p.  View Transcript

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Activity Listings

• Check from AHP to Anna May Mason, Treasurer for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
• Check from AHP to Barnes Foundation for $3.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
• Check from AHP to Helen Gallagher Foster Home for $7.69. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
• Check from AHP to Helen Huntley for $10.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
• Check from AHP to Monise Motors for $40.00. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
• Check from AHP to Sears Roebuck and Company for $98.85. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
• Check from LP to Steve Salisian Time Company for $60.30. [Filed under LP Biographical: (Business and Financial: Bank Statements and Canceled Checks, December 1957-December 1959), Box #4.025, Folder #25.2]
• Letter from Alois Stoff, Internationale der Kriegsdienstgegner, to LP RE [in German]: LP's proposed date change to accommodate a speech in London [Letter from LP to Stoff dated May 18, 1959; letter from Stoff to LP dated May 25, 1959] [Filed under LP Travel: Box #1.002, Folder 2.5]
• Letter from Dr. T. E. Boyd, Chief, Division of Clinical Physiology and Biochemistry, The National Foundation, to LP, RE: Explains that the booklet, "Policies and Rules Governing Grants," has not been revised since January 1, 1955. Informs LP of some changes regarding progress reports. [Filed under LP Science: (The National Foundation, 1958-1962), Box #14.024, Folder #24.1]
• Letter from Flee Earl, President, High Sierra Business and Professional Women's Club, to LP RE: Thanks him further for his speech at their Scholarship Dinner, encloses a check for $40 to cover his travel and return, and hopes they enjoyed their visit. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (E: Correspondence, 1959), #112.25]
• Letter from Joan Harris, Secretary to LP, to Phyllis Friedman RE: Says she is sorry to say that LP is about to leave on his trip to Europe and hasn't been able to reply to her letter. [Letter from Friedman to LP May 17, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (F: Correspondence, 1959), #129.3]
• Letter from John M. Cabot, Department of State, to LP RE: Thanks him for the kind letter regarding the reports that he has been chosen Ambassador to brazil, hopes the reports are accurate, recalls his visit to Stockholm when he received the Novel Prize, and hopes their paths may soon cross again. [Letter from LP to Cabot May 13, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (C: Correspondence, 1959), #75.2]
• Letter from John T. Gentry, State of New York Department of Health, to LP. RE: Thanks him for his note. Encloses a reprint. [Filed under LP Correspondence: (G: Correspondence, 1960) Box #141 Folder 141.4]
• Letter from L. A. DuBridge to LP RE: Informs LP that the Board of Directors met on May 4 and decided to increase his annual salary. Says that the salary scales still aren't commensurate with the excellency of the staff, but that the salary increases they have been able to make are a clear step in the right direction. [Filed under LP Safe Contents Drawer 2, Folder 2.006]
• Letter from LP to American Tourister Company. [Letter from Granoff to LP May 28, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (A: Correspondence, 1959), #13.2]

  21 May 1959

  American Tourister

  Company West Warwick,

  Rhode Island

  Gentlemen:

  I am writing to make a suggestion to you about the design of your American Tourister luggage.

  Some months ago my wife and I bought five bags, from Robinson's, of the American Tourister luggage.

  So far, the handle has been pulled loose from two of these bags. This has caused us considerable trouble—it is a nuisance to have the handle pulled loose from your bag, when you are on a long lecture tour, perhaps in a foreign country.

  I may say that the bag was not heavily packed, in either case. Its weight was only about twenty-five pounds; but I suppose that the porter (in each case at an airport) may have jerked it somewhat, while picking it up.

  I have now examined the bags, and I write to make a suggestion to you. The bags are poorly designed, from an engineering point of view. The handle is attached to two bosses, which are stapled to the body of the bag. However, the attachment of the handle is at one end of the boss, in such a way that the boss acts as a lever, and easily pulls the staple loose. The force exerted on the staple is about three times as great as it would be if the attachment of the handle were directly above the staple, or, if there were two staples, with the attachment of the handle in between them.

  I recommend that you change the design in a simple way, to correspond to good engineering practice. Then you will not have trouble with the handles pulling loose.

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling:jh

• Letter from LP to Peter Pauling. [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #5.043, Folder #43.3]

  21 May 1959

  Dear Peter,

  I have just checked Chapter 5 of the manuscript of The Nature of the Chemical Bond, and find that I have referred to the tetrahedral configuration of the ion NiCl₄ ^-- as having been verified by x-ray diffraction by you, Ph.D. Dissertation, University London, 1959. Perhaps this is not the right reference -- could you let me know about this point.

  I am having a hard time getting the manuscript finished before starting off on the trip, but I am committed to doing so, and accordingly I have to stick pretty much on the job.

  Much love from

  [Linus Pauling]

• Letter from LP to Professor J. L. Hoard, Chemistry Department, Cornell University RE: Asks for his verification of several references they have to him for the ms of the new edition of The Nature of the Chemical Bond, gives the references, and asks if there are errors in them. [Letter from Hoard to LP May 25, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Hoard, J. Lynn), #159.10]
• Letter from LP to the Department of Property Management, Hall of Records, Los Angeles County RE: Protests the proposed abandonment of a section of county road that runs by his property, says they will need it for access to the northwest part of their property, says they are traveling to Europe and so will miss the public hearing, and writes to register their protest of the abandonment of the road and ask that they reschedule the hearing. [Letter from LP to Los Angeles County Road Department May 15, 1959, Letter from Heuer to LP May 29, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (H: Correspondence, 1959), #167.4]
• Letter from Prafulla Chandra Das to R. T. Bond, Dodd Mead & Co., cc: LP, RE: Requests translation rights for LP's No More War! Proposes a modest offer and explains motives behind creating a Oriya language translation of the book. [Filed under LP Books: 1958b3.1]
• Letter from T. Wayne Rieman, Manchester College, to LP RE: Invites LP to visit Manchester College and present his views on nuclear energy to the student body. [Letter from LP to Rieman May 29, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (R: Correspondence, 1959), #341.5]
• Letter from Thelma Hepburn, Newsweek, to LP RE: Regrets that LP was disappointed with Newsweek's May 11 story on his speech about nuclear arsenals. Informs that she has informed the Space and Atom editor, Ed Diamond. [Letter from LP to Hepburn May 13, 1959, Letter from Diamond to LP July 12, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (Newsweek), #286.6]
• Note from Theo Theimann to LP RE: Questions LP about an example he gave about Na2 H20 in his May 12 letter. [Letters from LP to Theimann May 12, 1959, June 1, 1959] [Filed under LP Correspondence: (T: Correspondence, 1959), #411.4]
• Summary Report: Conference on Indole Metabolism, Pacific State Hospital, Pomona, California, May 21, 1959. [Filed under LP Science: Box #11.084, Folder #84.8]