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...Last summer TIME'S editors explored this mysterious area at the root of life in a cover story on Geneticist George Wells Beadle of Caltech (TIME, July 14). Last week the Nobel Prize committee chose Coverman Beadle and his partner Edward L. Tatum to share 1958's award for Medicine (see SCIENCE). The other half of the award went to Dr. Joshua Lederberg, 33, whom TIME'S story singled out as "probably the world's greatest young geneticist...
...Everybody wants me to play another dotty leftenant colonel," said Alec Guinness, alluding-in an interview with syndicated Nightscrawler Earl Wilson-to his Academy Award-winning interpretation of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. "The moneybags always say, 'Let's make another picture exactly like the last one'-and they lose their shirts. Now we're in the middle of the horror cycle. I hope they all do lose their shirts...
Voted to British Explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs: the Hubbard Medal, highest award of the National Geographic Society, for his 99-day trans-Antarctica trek covering 2,158 uncharted miles...
...award is the first of a series to be made annually to "the outstanding Harvard or Radcliffe College senior graduating summa cum laude in economics." The recipient is chosen by the Economics Department...
Look Homeward, Angel. Ketti Frings's Pulitzer Prize and Critics Award winner, less bulky and autobiographical than Thomas Wolfe's parent novel and more the portrait of a memorable family, at once riveted and riven...