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Busy Angel. The next man in the lights was as sleek as Browder was shabby. Frederick Vanderbilt Field (TIME, Jan. 9) great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is a busy, bright-eyed angel of Communism. His most recent wife was formerly married to Dr. Raymond Boyer, convicted participant in Russia's wartime spy ring in Canada. Field has given thousands of dollars to the Institute of Pacific Relations, wrote articles for its magazine, served as staff man and trustee from 1928-47. By Budenz' testimony, he was the spearhead of the Communist infiltration of the institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: In the Dark | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...executive vice president of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories (drugs), Businessman Francis Boyer has to deal with and hire scientists. Last week he told a Philadelphia convention of the American Chemical Society how he tries to decide whether a scientific researcher is apt to make real discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Esthetic Satisfaction | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...businessman," asked Boyer, "or a politician for that matter-tell a good scientist? He certainly is incapable of forming any sensible judgment on scientific grounds. He must, I think, turn to the human side. Every scientific discovery is in a sense the autobiography of the man who made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Esthetic Satisfaction | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

After asking advice from eminent friends, Boyer decided that a creative scientist must be "an all-round man, not a narrow specialist . . . This type of man is the one best able to leap barriers between fields, to borrow techniques, to synthesize new concepts." Besides many-sidedness, the productive researcher should have "the ability to see the relationship between apparently unrelated facts, the ability to appreciate the significance of the unobvious." He should have "intense curiosity combined with intense skepticism." His motivating force should be "the esthetic satisfaction he obtains in bringing order out of chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Esthetic Satisfaction | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Autumn Crocus, starring Dorothy McGuire and Charles Boyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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