Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet Academy of Sciences. The very name of the man who had been fired came back into the news like a memory of the past. But then Geneticist Lysenko had always been a man of the past. He rose to his position of power in Soviet science in the 1930s by preaching Lamarckism, the 18th century belief that plants and animals can transmit to the next generation characteristics they acquire in their own lifetime...
Died. Art Kassel, 67, Chicago bandleader whose wailing saxophone and syrupy voice put such songs as Love Letters in the Sand on the hit parade and kept his Castles in the Air radio program a national favorite throughout the 1930s; of kidney failure; in Van Nuys, Calif...
...general manager of the Associated Press from 1925 to 1948; of pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A bluff, hearty farm boy from Indiana, "K.C.," as he liked to be called, was the visionary who built the A.P. into the world's largest news-gathering service: in the 1930s he pioneered the widespread use of the Teletype ticker and the transmission of photos by wire and radio, but made his major contribution by breaking ties with the cartel of European news services that once monopolized overseas stories, instead marshaling his own army of reporters in every corner...
...hair-raising ride down a mountain at St. Moritz. Capital idea, decided the Italians, the Swiss and the Americans, who added steel runners, steering wheels, crash helmets, specially constructed bobsled runs, speeds up to 90 m.p.h.-and took turns dominating the sport. The U.S. won five championships in the 1930s and '40s, and Italy's great steersman, Eugenic Monti, led his team to eight world titles (both two-man and four-man) in seven years...
Divorced. Madeleine Carroll, 59, beauteous British-born star of the 1930s and '40s (The Thirty-Nine Steps, Café Society); by Andrew Heiskell, 49, board chairman of Time Inc.; on grounds of desertion; after 15 years of marriage, one child; in Litchfield, Conn...