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...Transduction. The other half of the medicine prize was awarded to Professor Joshua Lederberg (33) of the University of Wisconsin, whom his colleagues unstintingly rate as a genius. When 22 and working under Tatum as a graduate student at Yale, Lederberg proved that bacteria have a sex life of a sort, i.e., reproduce by the union of two organisms, with a consequent exchange of genes. This discovery widely expanded the field of experiment, since bacteria are even handier than molds in genetic experiments...
...Half of the $41,420 prize will go to the team of George Wells Beadle of Caltech (TIME, July 14), who is this year's George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University, and Edward L. Tatum of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute. Working together at Stanford University in 1940, they discarded the fruit flies traditionally used in studying heredity, employed instead a selected red bread mold, Neurospora crassa. The mold is easier to handle, its life chemistry is simpler, and yet it reproduces sexually...
...cost of network TV is zooming at a wicked rate, has increased more than $20,000-to $87,700-in the past two years for an average nighttime half-hour...
Before the show is half over, viewers are likely to wonder why CBS is not putting other Friars Club dinners on the air. Fact is, CBS planned on doing just that. After seeing the Sullivan pilot film, the Texas Co. was all set to pay $4,500,000 for a package that included eight similar shows, but backed out at the last minute. High-octane operators were disturbed, so the story goes, over a brief, dull speech by New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits in the last portion of the dinner. But Producer Nat (Bilko) Hiken, himself...
Kathryn Murray has been flaunting her courage on the air since 1950, when husband Arthur put up the money for Party's first half-hour of relentlessly joyous dancing. Although they picked up a few sponsors, the show was gradually dropped to the status of summer replacement-and clobbered Cornball Lawrence Welk when placed opposite him. Thus encouraged, says Kathryn, "we figured that if we were going to take a chance on being criticized, we'd rather do it on a winter show." This year the Murrays finally found a full-time evening sponsor (P. Lorillard...