Word: founder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah took over the leadership of his new nation eleven years ago, he complained of the "mutilated, truncated, moth-eaten Pakistan" that the British partition plan had given him. In a divided nation, where East is East and West is West, the Pakistanis of the neglected East have long regarded their own half as by far the more mutilated, truncated and moth-eaten...
That kind of talk is profoundly disturbing to Elaine Lorillard, socialite wife of Festival Founder Louis L. Lorillard. Says she: "We've been chided for putting on a show, as if it were degrading for jazz to be played in theatrical surroundings for money . . . But we see no point in jazz being private and ingrown. Jazz is a full sphere, not an empty circle...
...Fruit Flies. Beadle entered college in 1922. At the time, genetics was still a small, specialized field, but it was growing in both importance and intellectual vogue. Its great man was Professor Thomas Hunt Morgan of Columbia University, founder of the "fly school'' of genetics. He worked with Drosophila melanogaster, the small fly that congregates around fruit stands and garbage pails. As living instruments of genetics they were a happy choice. They are only 1/12 in. long, so their board bill is low. They produce new generations in about two weeks, multiplying rapidly in cream bottles stoppered with...
...wheat. Beadle helped Keim in summers, and when he graduated from college in 1926, Keim got him a graduate assistantship at Cornell at $750 a year. George Beadle still intended to become some sort of agricultural expert, but when he started working at Cornell with Professor Rollins Adams Emerson, founder of the ''corn school'' of genetics, he found the work so fascinating that he could not leave it. He never returned to agriculture above the backyard garden level...
...money-lending, helped St. Louis newsmen make it from one payday to the next, charged them interest at rates upwards of 5% a week; of uremic poisoning; in St. Louis. Young Sammy engineered a steady $2.50-a-week retainer from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after he spotted Founder Joseph Pulitzer on the street, pretended not to know who he was, followed him for blocks trying to sell him a copy of the Post-Dispatch. Later, in his banking days, he was ready 24 hours a day to back a reporter's unforeseen needs (such as the price...