McCarty at NAS
5/15/73
Mac McCarty
Avery's files
(left in 48
(cleaned out his files
lectures
unpublished talks
O.T. Avery: systematically discarded his own files.
"curious fellow"
Pres Bact Soc. address - worked for weeks.
Balto. 1941. / No reference to transforming factor.
not published. / nothing on record. "nothing till he was ready".
"Dec '43" (or late Nov.) paper s[ . . . ] in 11/43.
needed to be punished.
[ . . . ]: Al Coburn; Heidelburger;
Didn't hear until Spring '45 that Harriet would come (in fall).
? doubt Mirskey/Pollisky. Th[ . . . ]
no recollection of any Columbia people.
early '46 / Mirsky party / Rhoades / "You might not think you're doing genetics by you are"
Hershey, Pa Fall '45 / Childs Fund /
Jesse Owenstein instigated - asked Avery (DNAses) [sic]
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Would Mac go instead of Avery.
(? '46)
"almost pathological. "
Dawson: R <-> S. work.
in 40's.
Fess said: immediately skeptical
Dawson: all set to go. & repeated it [ . . . ] away.
Avery was already senior person in group.
Dawson - d[ . . . ] to Avery.
(Dubos may have been too critical)
Alloway[?]: Avery was deeply involved.
found pH^2 [ . . . ]ability.
Red Seal Records
? don't know
Avery was "there" but not working untl [sic] circa 1934
operation was mid 30's
hypothyroid circa 1933. '34.
His papers: deada ended.
monologues - "stylized" - polys[ . . . ] capsule transform story
stereotyped statements.
(recollections of oral statements")
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pathological about being [ . . . ]
esp re hypotheses.
"nothing should have any chance of being wrong, "
Av. Re[ . . . ]: writes of "lack of anti[ . . . ]ty" (Meant only special case of [ . . . ] rabbit)
bioch baby[?]. / as m[ . . . ].) conc. on nature of culture[?]
lab discussions: "what was it":
[Knight was trying to change T[ . . . ] was it protein or NA?]
Mirsky or Starsky - scotched[?] Avery.
C[ . . . ]n - "didn't get it" [Schultz and [ . . . ]]
"fractionate a crude[?] extent" what it means today and then.
Mac didn't know being[?] of pre-[ . . . ] on my own history.
Would like to find time to menion [sic] it.  May had had started but only lab notes are available