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"I suppose I sold more milk than anybody who ever lived." No, that's not Elsie the Borden cow speaking but Elmer Verner McCollum, who in 1918, as a University of Wisconsin researcher, first identified vitamin A in butterfat. He followed this in 1922 with the discovery (in cod...
Boxes & Coffee Grinders. One of Duchamp's newfound admirers, Pop Painter Jasper Johns, likes to remind scoffers of the cartoon caption, "O.K. So he invented fire-but what did he do after that?" In terms of sheer production, Duchamp is but a pint-sized Prometheus. His lifelong catalogue lists...
icniV ad odranoeL. "The proof of good painting comes when intelligence is part of it," he believes, and adds: "Abstract expressionism was not intellectual at all for me. It is under the yoke of the retinal; I see no grey matter there. Jasper Johns, one of our lights, and Rauschenberg...
Almost all Harvard premedical students want to go to Harvard, Columbia, or Cornell. Johns Hopkins, Yale, Penn, Western Reserve, and Rochester are strong second choices. With the burgeoning number of applicants, it is simply not possible for most premedical students to attend a medical school among their first choices. Today...
Worldly, interesting, informed and even intellectual when barely out of childhood, young kids all over the U.S. are pulling down the entry age to teendom. Even as they do, the affluent society is pushing up the average age of school leaving. The lengthened span of teen-agery-what Johns Hopkins...