Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealth supplied by Mullers X rays gave genetics a big boost, and Beadle felt the benefit along with his colleagues. After getting his doctorate (in genetics) at Cornell in 1931, he went to the California Institute of Technology on a National Research Council fellowship. Dr. Morgan, grand maestro of the fruit flies, had moved there in 1928 to head the biology section, and several of his keenest disciples had come with him. Young Dr. Beadle found himself in the best genetic society...
...crowded lecture hall of the San Francisco Museum of Art gathered a who's who of art, from black-tied sponsors to shaggy bohemians. The reception committee numbered 50 strong, ranged alphabetically from the Association of San Francisco Potters to the World Affairs Council. Sitting nervously on the stage, and at times close to tears, was the object of this outpouring of affection: durable, forthright Dr. Grace Louise McCann Morley, 57 (TIME, Feb. 28, 1955). Dr. Morley, the most respected woman museum director in the U.S., and the dominant spokesman for contemporary art on the West Coast, was retiring...
...conference will continue tomorrow morning at 9:15 a.m. with speeches by Henry Toy, President of the National Citizens Council for Better Schools, and John B. Fisher of Joyce and Fisher Associates, on "The Citizen Looks at His Schools...
Entertainment Barred. The A.M.A.'s house of delegates last week also approved a report by its council on mental health giving a guarded endorsement of the use of hypnosis in medicine, surgery and dentistry. Because hypnosis is such easy "meat for the charlatan," the council insisted that its use should be limited to specially trained doctors and dentists, who must be careful to use it only in the area of their specialty. On the hazards of hypnosis, the council had conflicting evidence and could reach no agreement. But on one point it was dogmatic: "The use of hypnosis...
Balletomanes. In Brunswick, N.C., all 42 registered male voters in the town stood for election to the five-man town council...