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Cloaked in the cardinal-and-white hood and sable robes of a Cornell Ph.D. for his installation as chancellor of the University of Chicago, Nobel prizewinning Geneticist Dr. George W. Beadle (TIME cover, Jan. 2) proposed a sure way for keeping outside support of education from turning into outside control. Set up an "independence fund," suggested Beadle, so schools can "say no to any proposal for Government-or private-support that threatens our independence...
...moths that wing into Britain each spring. One theory is that they fly all the way from African deserts, where they maintain their winter breeding reservoirs. Another is that they breed somewhere along the way, so that only later generations ever reach England. In last week's Nature, Geneticist H.B.D. Kettlewell of Oxford offered strong proof for the direct-from-Africa theory-using an atom bomb explosion to trace the flight of the gentle moth...
...lanky fellow with a fanatic's fiery eyes, Geneticist Trofim Lysenko was Stalin's favorite scientist. Thirteen years ago, he blossomed before the world as the self-taught despot of Soviet biological science, proclaiming his fantastic dogma that Communists could change nature at will. Riding high, he terrorized his rivals, shipping to prison or disgrace all Soviet biologists who defended the orthodox axiom that basic traits are transmitted by genes that cannot be changed by training the parent organism. Lysenko's dictatorship died with Stalin. But now Lysenko is back in bloom, not as a declaimer...
...disappointed that TIME overlooked Johns Hopkins' distinguished geneticist, Bentley Glass, whose concern for the long-range consequences of nuclear experimentation, active interest in the preservation of academic freedom, and articulate insistence on understanding between the "two cultures" make his one of the most responsible voices in the scientific community...
...Caltech, Geneticist Beadle has stuck close to his research as head of the school's famous biology division since 1946. But he has shown a sixth-sense ability to spot, recruit and excite able researchers, and has developed unexpected talents in fund raising and speechmaking. Beadle is even that rare scientist who takes an interest in money matters; he avidly reads the Wall Street Journal, and took delight in driving a $250 model A Ford for 22 years, then selling...