From: Randy Hogue Area: Metaphysical To: Karl Lembke 25 Nov 94 12:11:40 Subject: The Week in Death: July UpdReq On 06 Aug 94 17:40:14, Karl Lembke had this to say about The Week in Death: July: KL> -=> Quoting Albertus Magnus to All <=- KL> AM> POEM OF THE WEEK: KL> AM> The Gashlycrumb Tinies KL> AM> ``A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs, KL> . . . . . KL> AM> Z is for Zilla, who drank too much gin. KL> AM> -- Edward Gorey KL> Thank you! I've been hoping to find the rest of these! Hey, at one time a wonderful poster of the Tinies was availible. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Randy Hogue Area: Metaphysical To: Albertus Magnus 25 Nov 94 12:45:40 Subject: The Week in Death: August 19-25 UpdReq On 06 Sep 94 21:17:43, Albertus Magnus had this to say about The Week in Death: August 19-25: AM> AM> Linus Pauling (93), scientist. A biography of Pauling would provide AM> as AM> good a snapshot of the 20th century as one could hope to get out of AM> a AM> single life's story -- in the 1930s the man helped decrypt the nature AM> of the atom, in the 40s got sucked into the Communist witch hunts, AM> helped kick off the 50s anti-nuclear and 60s anti-war movements, and AM> in the 70s and 80s got involved in the health craze. AM> AM> In 1954, he won the Nobel in Chemistry for his research into AM> chemical bonds, which reflected discoveries in quantum physics. In AM> the AM> 40s, he began trying to determine the nature of DNA, and though he AM> took a wrong turn in his research, his efforts (and his self-promoting AM> showmanship) spurred James Watson and Francis Crick to make their AM> discoveries. AM> AM> Meanwhile, Pauling was demonstrating against nuclear testing, AM> nucear proliferation, and war in general, for which Sen. Joseph AM> McCarthy accused him of being a Communist. Interestingly, the Soviets AM> castigated Pauling for his chemistry theories, which they deemed AM> ``hostile to the Marxist view.'' Over 10 years later, he won a Nobel AM> Peace Prize for his activism. AM> AM> In the 1970s, Pauling proposed massive doses of vitamin C as a AM> preventative measure against colds, and later said such treatment AM> would protect against cancer. Neither theory proved valid. AM> Thanks for your delightful column Mr. Magnus. Thanks to you, I look forward to death every week. I was distressed to hear about Mr. Paulings' death. Truely a giant of modern science...(moment of silence). He (I'm lead to believe) was born in a very small town on the high platuea of eastern Oregon. The town no longer exists. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718