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Soutines at $50. Barnes was a strange and brilliant man who rose out of a South Philadelphia slum to become a chemist and make a fortune out of an antiseptic called Argyrol. But his chief passion in life was art. He read everything he could find on the subject. He bought Modiglianis when the artist was still an unknown, once scooped up 60 Soutines at an average of $50 apiece, acquired some of the world s finest Matisses and assembled the most impressive group of Cézannes outside the Louvre. His collection was to include everyone from Tintoretto...
...everybody else was bored in 1960, and there were some adventurers?bearing spears in the Congo or banging shoes at the U.N.?who could hardly be called scientific. But the world of 1960 will readily agree with Chemist Willard Libby that U.S. scientists and their colleagues in other free lands are indeed the true 20th century adventurers, the explorers of the unknown, the real intellectuals of the day, the leaders of mankind's greatest inquiry into the mysteries of matter, of the earth, the universe, and of life itself. Their work shapes the life of every human presently inhabiting...
...include two or three whose greatest work is probably behind them. Chemist Linus Pauling published his milestone theories about the nature of the chemical bond in the '30s, waited until 1954 to receive his Nobel Prize. But Pauling's accurate insights remain a basis for the work of 1960?3 scientists in many fields. Physicist I. I. Rabi received his Nobel Prize in 1944 for his work on the atomic nucleus, in recent years has been most active as an articulate adviser to the Federal Government, explaining science to the Solons as something that requires, and is worthy...
...bacteria, who is now deep in the study of a new science that he calls "exobiology" ?an attempt to obtain and compare life on other planets with that on earth. Another is Physicist Donald Glaser, one of the U.S.'s two Nobel prizewinners in science for 1960 (Chemist Libby is the other). Glaser's award came for his development of the bubble chamber, a quantum jump in the study of atomic particles. But at age 34, Glaser is about to start his scientific life anew, switching to microbiology, which has an irresistible lure for his insatiable curiosity...
...week, is regularly gone from Thursday to Tuesday. Economist-Author John (The Affluent Society) Galbraith gets so many requests that he files them by continent. Schlesinger's schedule is so crowded that he leaves itineraries by the telephone so his children can inform callers, and incidentally themselves. Chemist George B. Kistiakowsky has not even been at Harvard for the past year but in Washington as President Eisenhower's science adviser. Budget Director Bell is now off to Washington-after living part time in Pakistan since 1954 as the country's economic consultant...