Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened quite accidentally. Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the world's foremost genetic researchers, was experimenting with an amber-colored South American fruit fly known as Drosophila paulistorum at Manhattan's Rockefeller University. He was interested in one particular strain of the fly from the Llanos district of Colombia, and he isolated it from other strains in 1958. Five years later he and his assistant, Dr. Olga Pavlovsky, routinely attempted to interbreed the Llanos flies with similar strains and observe the results of the mating...
...congressional liaison man for J.F.K. and L.B.J., Henry Hall Wilson Jr., 45, was a well-paid civil servant who earned $29,500 a year. Last week, when he accepted the presidency of Chicago's Board of Trade-the world's foremost commodity exchange-he got a raise of $70,500. His $100,000 salary reflects the fact that the commodities trading the 18-man board controls has just hit a record yearly volume of $81.4 billion...
...Haven-born Adler joined Waterman soon after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance, moved up quickly, became company controller at 24, treasurer at 26. He caught the eye of Chairman Marcel Bich, Europe's foremost ballpoint-pen maker, when Bich bought Waterman in 1958. "I told him, 'You've cut expenses as much as you can,' " says Adler. " 'What you need is sales.' " Bich immediately made Adler executive vice president, and after sales pushed the company into the black, Adler became president at 31. Today Waterman...
London's Tate Gallery owns more Henry Moores than any other museum -about 50 pieces in all. But, like the works of Britain's foremost living sculptor, the Tate's Moore collection also has a number of holes. Moore, who has always had "a soft spot" for the Tate, has saved a copy of every work he has done since 1949. He has long planned a gift of 20 or 30 pieces-worth, at current market prices, between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000-to provide a complete cross-section of his life work...
Died. Mark DeWolfe Howe, 60, professor of constitutional law at Harvard, who served his apprenticeship as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (whose life he later chronicled in a definitive biography), went on to become one of the nation's foremost legal historians and teachers and an indefatigable campaigner for civil liberties and rights; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass...