Word: bellman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closest neighbor is a rich and really quiet American. Joe Bellman, who looks like "Edward Gibbon, parboiled," has not opened a book in 20 years, simply lolls in the sea and sun, and only worries how his next meal is coming, culinarily speaking. When the doctored fruit reaches grapefruit-size, Gourmet Joe poaches a fig. "This is how things tasted to Adam," he tells his maid delightedly, "before Eve introduced him to ignobler pleasures and spoiled his palate for ever more...
...remarkable how few people realize that the Russian scientific tradition goes back so far," says Mathematician Richard Bellman of the Rand Corp. "In some fields, we've always been behind." It was the 19th century Russian Botanist Dmitry Ivanovsky who discovered the first plant virus. Dmitry Pryanishnikov originated soil research, and world-famed Dmitry Mendeleev charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. Had Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize...
...ideas in consequence are almost bound to be his own, and fresh minted. His great virtue as an inspirer of young men lies in the extraordinary egocentric faith he has in his own intuitions; as a scientist, Bucky often has not much more quality than Lewis Carroll's Bellman, in The Hunting of the Snark, whose assertion was that what he said three times was true, but he can relate anything in the world to anything else, and spin such long-chain molecules of thought that professors to whom a house is a house would rather maintain a purse...
What will become of West Point's dismissed cadets? To each of them, the Bellman Publishing Co. of Boston offered a free copy of its book, How to Choose That College. But last week, as they quietly left the Point one by one, most of the cadets faced a different problem-how to find a college that would choose them...