Dear Beets--
I would be happy to fill in or whatever you wish to follow your lead in a piece for the A/P/S.  Why don't you just send me a rough draft and I will do the detail work, references, etc., and send back to you (and I will add my own stuff for post 1946.
OK?
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Reprinted from
PERSPECTIVES AND HORIZONS IN MICROBIOLOGY
A Symposium edited by Selman A. Waksman
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N. J.
1955
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The Lincoln and [ . . . ] paper was quite vividly [. . .] at least since 1945.  Dubos cited it in his book "The Bacterial Cell."  Here -- see page 30 and reference #14
Josh