Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applauded when red-faced Ray Gene Cinnamon, 19, a shy boy with a big grin, from Garber, Okla., was named 1947 Star Farmer of America (prize: $1,000). Ray Gene has been showing prize-winning livestock at the Royal show for the past seven years. In 1944 his entry took the grand champion steer award, which, together with two other prize-winning animals, netted him more than $9,000. That year Ray Gene had to call in an accountant to help on his income...
...Scarlet eleven got up off the floor to overpower the Lions completely for two periods and finally lead 28 to 27. They crossed Columbia's goal twice more in the final quarter, but the referee disallowed these scores, and the Lions finally won on the strong right arm of Gene Rossides...
...Gene Kelly, trying out a new dance routine at home, missed his footing, fell, broke his right ankle, had to bow out of Hollywood's Easter Parade. To help a pal, Fred Astaire, who very loudly removed his dancing shoes last year, happily bounded out of retirement into Kelly's role. Said bald Hoofer Fred about retirement: "I'll always talk about it, but I'll probably never...
...Stanley is stalking even bigger game. Viruses are very much like genes, the submicroscopic particles in living cells which control heredity. It is possible, Stanley suggested last week, that slight changes in a gene's amino acids might cause changes in heredity. If so, could man control his own evolution by tinkering with his genes? Says Dr. Stanley: "Perhaps . . . knowledge of this type could affect the destiny of all living things...
...prove that the Badger's reserves stacked up pretty favorably with the first team it is only necessary to point out that Wisconsin's two most effective ground-gainers of the afternoon were second-string fullback Ben Bendrick and Gene Evans, third in line for the left halfback post...