Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catering to the particular tastes of its elderly and omnivorous readers is an obligation that President and Editor Nelson P. Poynter, whose family has owned this old-gold mine for years, is happy to discharge. Indeed, the oldsters have had a healthy effect on the paper itself. "They make you think twice before generalizing," said a Times staffer : "They really read the newspaper. They not only have the time, they have the informed interest. They're a challenge." Meeting that challenge has helped rank the St. Petersburg Times among the South's most solid newspapers...
...University, he joined Manhattan's New York University, intensified his research on enzymes, the catalysts of life. In 1946 he had a brilliant post-doctoral student, Arthur Kornberg. Within ten years Dr. Ochoa and colleagues found a way to make an enzyme build up nucleic acids and, in effect, create a synthetic form of RNA. Brooklyn-born Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 41, graduated from the City College of New York at 19. Working for his M.D. at the University of Rochester, he picked up hepatitis, put the experience to good use by publishing his first paper ("The Occurrence of Jaundice...
...cumulative effect of the longest nationwide steel strike in history (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) cut deep into U.S. industry. With stockpiles reduced sharply, dozens of industries are slowing down and beginning to lay off. Auto, appliance, farm-equipment, machinery makers are all tightening their belts, and they face still more trouble before the economy is rolling at full speed again. The mills will need four to six weeks to get back to 90% of capacity, at least three months to fill the empty pipelines...
...course, the artists. Her descriptions are sharp and unorthodox (of Il Rosso's Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro: "The half-carnival atmosphere of an insane asylum or of a brothel during a police raid"). Together with the book's superb photographs, such comments have the effect of giving entirely fresh life to tourist memories. The Stones of Florence is in the end a solid tribute to the city and its people past and present, an estimate achieved without the least sentimentality, and free of solemn artiness. Some readers may say that this is not the Florence they...
...dominating masculine figure to bring it to an explosion of melodrama. "Because of its considerably delicate or tenuous material," the author says of it, "atmospheric touches and subtleties of direction play a particularly important part." John Hancock, who directed the current production, has worked scrupulously and to beautiful effect with everyone concerned...