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...individuals highlighted in the exhibit include scientists Melvin Calvin, Margaret Mead, Linus Pauling, Simon Ramo, Jonas Salk and Charles Townes; designers Buckminster Fuller, Lawrence Halprin and George Nelson; composer John Cage; artists Romare Beardon, Judy Chicago, Jasper Johns and Roman Vishniac; and choreographer Merce Cunningham. In addition, the show examines the work of the team of seismologists, geologists, and oceanographers which developed the theory of plate tectonics...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Creativity: Exploring the Unexplainable | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

...fourth characteristic which psychologists attribute to the creative mind is the ability to make connections. Pauling utilized two widely separated area of science--x-ray deflection and quantum mechanics--to develop a theory of chemical bonding which revolutionized chemistry. Beardon, an artist, made connections between art and the jazz he grew up with in Harlem. The result: a new art form called "abstract expressionism...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Creativity: Exploring the Unexplainable | 2/4/1981 | See Source »

...jukeboxes across the big, muddy, thawing Alaskan tundra last week, a top pop was Alaska, the Forty-Ninth Star, sung by Anchorage Entertainer-Bartender Freddie Beardon on the new Igloo label (made in Anchorage). And it came close to capturing the confidence and cockiness of Alaskans (We have riches untold-there's oil, fish and gold), hustling toward the greatest summer ever. Some northern high lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Call of the Wild | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Washington (Beardon) 6, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 9/28/1950 | See Source »

...nursemaid reading a bedtime story to enthralled five-year-olds ("Coked to the gills, Beardon lunged toward the supine figure on the red-plush couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Laughing Tiger | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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