Word: genes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best and bloodiest middleweight fist fights in years, Utah's Gene Fullmer and France's Charles Humez cut each other up like feuding samurai for ten rounds at Madison Square Garden before Fullmer won the decision and, perhaps, a chance to send Champion Sugar Ray Robinson back to the nightclubs...
...wheelchair by arthritis and complications. Millikin, 65, has announced that he will run again. But the G.O.P., facing hard opposition from Brannan, is expected to urge Senator Millikin to withdraw in favor of a candidate who could conduct a more vigorous campaign. A leading choice of the politicos, if Gene Millikin agrees to step down: Texas-born Dan Thornton, cattle rancher and former (1951-54) governor of Colorado...
...Gene's Boy. Herman Talmadge, who now appears to have clear sailing to the U.S. Senate, has no such trouble on the segregation issue. He learned his politics at the baggy knee of his father, gallus-snapping "Ol' Gene" Talmadge, one of the South's most notorious rabblerousers, governor of Georgia for six years (1933-36, 41-42). Herman watched his father run the state with the fist of a dictator, spit tobacco at his foes and graze milk cows on the statehouse lawn. He also saw his father try-and fail-to do what Herman...
...better with Dentist Gary Middlecoff, "master of the chip and middle inlay." Middlecoff brought $16,000. Durante managed to sell Ted Kroll for $10,000. ("Didja ever see this fella Kroll's legs? A regular croquet player.") Top price ($16,500) went for last year's winner, Gene Littler. Littler went to Singer Frankie Laine, who had bought him last year and won $72,900 in the divvying up. Frankie's purchase brought...
Genetics was treated to the full fury of Communist polemics. It was denounced as "capitalist-reactionary" and as "the prop of the ideology of imperialism." To say a good word for a gene or a chromosome might cost a Soviet scientist his job or even his life. Nothing like this massive attack upon the observed and provable truth had happened in a major country since the persecution of Galileo for insisting that the earth revolves around...