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...that they had discovered "the secret of life." True, the onetime ornithologist and the former physicist had created a plausible model for the structure of DNA that morning. If they were right, biologists would finally understand how parents pass characteristics on to their children--not only hair and eye color but every aspect of how the human body is built and how it operates. Watson, at left in photo, and Crick would have solved the mysteries of heredity and of evolution, all in one shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feb. 28, 1953: Eureka: The Double Helix | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood ... I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." A short time later, when King and other leaders of the March on Washington filed into the Cabinet Room to lobby for stronger provisions in Kennedy's proposed civil rights legislation, the President greeted King with a smile and a quip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aug. 28, 1963 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

Peter Pan Live Color Broadcast NBC, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Performances to Savor | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

Think of Peter Pan as a TV salesman, and in that regard, this show was one of the most successful ever broadcast. One of the first color specials, it reached as many as 65 million homes. NBC, then owned by RCA, had no small interest in moving its expensive new color TVs, and Pan was a two-hour, $400,000 commercial for the glories of color. People gathered at the homes of neighbors who had "color" to watch. They were not disappointed. "Surely there must be fairy dust from coast to coast this morning," raved a critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Performances to Savor | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...simply what we were seeing but that we were seeing it at all. Tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles powering through berms on the Iraqi border, oil fields burning, missiles ripping into Baghdad and soldiers and reporters donning gas masks and scrambling for bunkers--all live and in color, or at least in night-vision green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Battles In Real Time | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

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