Word: coralled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second under the wire in the hula race was Roulette Records, closely followed by Coral. Both companies recorded The Hula Hoop Song, written by a couple of amateurs in Cleveland...
Stimulated Sightings. Questioned in Switzerland, Dr. Jung was astonished at the misuse of his famous name. While investigating the saucer myth, he said, he corresponded with Coral E. Lorenzen, director of A.P.R.O., and good-humoredly accepted an honorary membership, but he did not authorize his listing as the Bulletin's consultant in psychology...
Died. Vice Admiral James Henry Flatley. U.S.N.. 52, aerial-gunnery expert and World War II ace in the Pacific, skipper of Fighter Squadron No. 10, who won the Navy Cross in the Battle of the Coral Sea, was later a key figure with Navy's postwar air-training program; of cancer; in Bethesda...
...Beadle teamed up with Dr. Edward L. Tatum, a chemist now of the Rockefeller Institute, and selected a new laboratory victim, the so-called red bread mold (Neurospora crassa), which is really a beautiful coral pink in its natural state, unmolested by geneticists. Neurospora is a geneticist's dream. When properly introduced, it mates and reproduces sexually. It also grows nonsexually, so a truckload of mold with the same heredity can be grown, if desirable, from a single spore. But the best thing about Neurospora is that it asks for so little. It thrives on a medium containing nothing...
...Tatum reported their success in 1941, they had quite a collection of defective molds, each needing some extra nutrient or having some other gene-controlled chemical ailment. In a few years their imitators filled their own laboratories with molds as unnatural as the most monstrous fruit flies. The coral fluffs of normal Neurospora are rare in the test tubes and Petri dishes. In their place are blackish warts, lichenlike incrustations, or sick-looking globules. One horrible kind of mold grown in a moving liquid floats in bunches with limp limbs like soft, dead crabs...