ABSTRACT
there was going to be a phage group meeting, to be run by Luria at Indiana University in the second week of April 1949. Almost all of the dozen or so of the Church’s communicants were going to Bloomington, including Élie and me. The National Research Council agreed to pay for my trip from Pasadena, but when Max asked the Rockefeller Foundation for reimbursement of Élie’s ticket, they informed him that they didn’t send their fellows to private Kaffeeklatsches. So Max talked Beadle into shelling out some of his discretionary monies to cover Élie’s expenses. Jean Weigle was going to come to the meeting too, driving back east in his dream boat convertible and stopping over in Bloomington on his way home to Geneva. He was going to leave the Caddy in the East and reclaim it in the fall, on his return to Pasadena. Another neophyte was expected to show up at the meeting: Wolf Weidel, a young German biochemist, who would be on his way to Pasadena from Tübingen. Max was bringing him to Caltech for a year, in the hope that Weidel would establish a German See of the Phage Church.
