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...chillingly, imaginable. Genetics became a matter of immediate concern to all men. Last summer TIME'S editors explored this mysterious area at the root of life in a cover story on Geneticist George Wells Beadle of Caltech (TIME, July 14). Last week the Nobel Prize committee chose Coverman Beadle and his partner Edward L. Tatum to share 1958's award for Medicine (see SCIENCE). The other half of the award went to Dr. Joshua Lederberg, 33, whom TIME'S story singled out as "probably the world's greatest young geneticist...
...newspaper career, he got his first good look at the East. He set off on a westward jaunt around the world in 1940, reported the war's effects on Free China and Hong Kong, took a look behind the Japanese lines, and, incidentally, had several interviews with TIME coverman Chou Enlai...
...Less directly involved in war, but caught in its vortex, were Novelist-Biographer Stefan Zweig, dead by his own hand in Brazilian exile ("The artist has been wounded in his concentration. . . ."); sensationalist Richard Julius Herman Krebs (alias Jan Valtin, hero of under-coverman Krebs's 1941 best-seller Out of the Night), imprisoned by the Justice Department for deportation to Germany at war's end; Author Waldo ("I love Argentina. . . .") Frank, who gave a repeat performance of the mauling he received in Kentucky's Harlan County in 1932 by getting attacked by young Fascists in Buenos Aires...
...carried the punch of James Montgomery Flagg's recruiting poster of World War I depicting a persuasive Uncle Sam pointing a solemn finger at the U.S. and saying I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY. Closer to it last week was a poster by veteran Saturday Evening Post Coverman Norman Rockwell. Created without benefit of a New Deal bureau, Artist Rockwell's machine gunner (see cut), whose wounds and exhausted cartridge belt cry aloud for assistance, was painted at the suggestion of Manhattan's Williams & Saylor Advertising Agency, for Army Ordnance. Like all good war posters, it needed...
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