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(Editor's N o t e: Meyer
Levin, noted author of the
current best-seller "Eva" and
other novels, in a special
assignment for Israeli Science
Features and News recently
interviewed Dr. Mathilde
Krim, the beautiful scientist
associated with the Weizmann
Institute of Science at Reho-
vot. Here are some of the
highlights of the interview.)
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By MEYER LEVIN
We sat in a second floor sit-
ting room of an elegant little
house on Manhattan's East Riv-
er. Dr. Mathilde Krim—as pho-
togenic as a youthful Ingrid
Bergman—and I spoke of her
work, which has ranged from
analysis of the sex structure of
the cell to her present absorp-
tion with the analysis of cancer
virus.
In all this, though her labo-
ratory is now set up in the di-
vision of virus research at New
York City's Cornell Medical
School, she is still very much
a part of the Rehovot team, as
she has been since she came
for the first time to Israel. Her
ties with the Weizmann Insti-
tute of Science are more than
professional. Arthur Krim, her
husband, is an active member
of the Institute's board of gov-
ernors, and the Krims, for the
past year or so, have commuted
between New York and Rehovot.
I had gone to see Dr. Krim
because of the subject matter
of her current research. From
all corners of the world, there
have come, in recent months,
predictions of a breakthrough
in the urgent battle against can-
cer; predictions based on the
new approach in virus research.
Dr. Krim explained the facts.
The first connection between
virus and cancer was establish-
ed as long as 50 years ago,
chiefly by Peyton Rous who had
obtained virus from a tumor of
a chicken, and, by injecting it
into another bird of the same
breed, had succeeded in produc-
ing a parallel tumor. But the
line of investigation almost pe-
tered out; and many attempts to
extract viruses from other tu-
mors gave mostly negative re-
sults.
In 1955, two American re-
searchers found that there was
a much more active virus which
produced cancer in many faring,
and in different animals. Also,
it could be maintained in tissue
culture. It proved effective in
mice, rabbits, hamsters, and
rats. Cancers were produced in
salivary glands, kidneys, bone,
mammary glands, hair follicles
and other organs. For its multi-
tude of effects, the material was
named the polyoma virus.
It opened a vast field of re-
search. Part of this was done
in Rehovot, and Mathilde Krim
was a member of that research
team. The basic problems to be
resolved were as multitudinous
as the polyoma's effects. Are
viruses involved in the origin
of all tumors? Haw are viruses
transmitted? What is the nature
of cell-virus interaction? Does
the virus itself cause the forma-
tion of a tumor, or does it acti-
vate some other mechanism?
Once the tumor is formed, is
the virus necessary for its con-
tinuation?
"Already," said Dr. Krim,
"we have found an important
distinction between the cancer
virus and a virus such as that
which produces polio." In polio,
it was discovered that when one
cell is infected with virus, it
releases hundreds of virus part-
icles in a few hours. But, in her
studies of tumor cells induced
by polyoma virus, Dr. Krim has
found that each tumor cell re-
leases only five particles of
virus in 24 hours. The virus
would seem to have been incor-
porated into the genetic appa-
ratus of the tumor cell.
Results and questions like
these traverse the distance be-
tween Dr. Krim and her "boss"
DR. MATHILDE KRIM
in Rehovot, Dr. Leo Sachs, with
whom she has worked since
1954.
Upon such delicate, expert
peering and probing hang uni-
versal hopes. No one, least of
all Dr. Krim, will venture a
guess as to the when or the how
of victory against cancer. But in
the close and intense study of
the virus mechanism within the
cell—in the heart of the dread
malady—may well lie the an-
swer to its defeat.
Israel Policeman
Slain by Syrians
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV — Israel officials
charged Wednesday that Syrian
gunners ignored repeated
United Nations observer appeals
to stop shooting Tuesday after
their fire wounded an Israel
border policeman, making it im-
possible to reach the wounded
man.
Sources said the firing lasted
75 minutes. The wounded Is-
raeli died en route to a hospital.
Israeli members of the nearby
collective kibbutz Tel Katzair
resumed their usual work
Wednesday morning in the
vineyard near the site of the
shooting.
UN observers expressed sur-
prise at the unprovoked Syrian
outbreak in the Bet Katzir sec-
tion near the border which
came after months of relative
quiet.
The dead man, Shmuel Ben
Arieh of Affulah, left a wife
and two children.
2 Buffalo Congregations
Expand School Facilities
BUFFALO, N.Y., (JTA) —
Two Buffalo synagogues were
busy with school expansion
programs this week.
Temple Beth El's surburban
school will be ready for re-
ligious school classes in the
fall. The school buildings will
also be used for services. It
will have class and meeting
rooms, a library, a kindergar-
ten, kitchen and an air-
conditioned auditorium seating
500.
Ah av as A chi m-Lubav i tz Syna-
gogue will build a school next
to its present building to pro-
vide 270 children of congrega-
tional families with permanent
school facilities. It will have
six classrooms, a library and
an office and will be ready
Sept. 1.
Artist Max Weber Gives
Painting to Brandeis U.
"Whither Now," by Max
Weber, a painting motivated by
the eminent artist's reaction to
the Nazi attack on the Berlin
Jewish community in Novem-
ber, 1938, has been presented
to Brandeis University by Mr.
and Mrs. Weber.
The painting, which becomes
part of the university's perma-
nent art collection, portrays two
Jewish patriarchs praying for a
homeland as the answer to the
ancient problem of Jewish
homelessness.
Danny Raskin's
LISTENING
A PROUD BOY is Detroiter
Bryan Kahn, who arrived last
week from Fort Knox, Tenn.,
where he has just completed
basic training . . . "I may be
just a number now," says Bryan,
who walks around town wear-
ing the uniform of Uncl' Sam
as if it was the Congressional
Medal of Honor, "but corny or
not I'm now qualified to be a
real fighter in the United States
Army." .. . Bryan, who is par-
entless, enlisted on his 17th
birthday last April 18, and ex-
tolls his gratefulness for the
opportunity to complete his
s^hooling which the army af-
fords him ... and also to prove
to himself the exten4 of his
capabilities which heretofore
were unkown . . . "This is only
the beginning," comments the
now confident Bryan as he
points to the sharpshooting
medal on his expanded chest
. . . While on furlough, Bryan
is staying with his aunt and
uncle, Sarah and Max Thomas
on Santa Barbara . . . and as
proud as he is, they're even
prouder of him!
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Lefkowitz Raps Apathy Toward Hate Peddlers
KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y.,
(JTA) — Louis J. Lefkowitz,
attorney general of New York
State, warned here today that
"insiduous peddlers of hate and
discrimination are the front line
enemies of freedom."
Speaking before delegates
representing 275 Brith Abra-
ham lodges throughout the
country, attending the recent
73rd annual convention of the
national fraternal order, Lefko-
witz emphasized that the Amer-
ican people's "complacency
gives courage to the apostle of
group hatred."
The convention unanimously
adopted a resolution, proposed
by Grand Master Maurice Gold-
stein, urging. Israel to stand
firm in its refusal to return
Adolf Eichmann to Argentina.
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23 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, July 1, 1960
Beautiful Dr. Krim Aids in Fight
on Cancer at Weizmann Institute