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...seven, Norbert Wiener was already interested in chemistry and physics, so his college-professor father set up a small laboratory for him in their home in Cambridge, Mass. But since Norbert was not the kind of lad to lose himself in sterile specialization, he also looked into zoology botany-particularly into "structure and the problems of growth." It soon became clear that little Norbert was a scientific prodigy, one of the most brilliant ever to appear in the U.S. At nine he entered high school; at eleven he was enrolled at Tufts College, a dumpy little boy with thick glasses...
...Thompson believed that his son was a happy medical student-until he found that Student Thompson never went near the lecture halls if he could help it. Not until a few years later did father Thompson discover that his son was a poet, and cry in anguish: "If the lad had but told...
...from The Bronx who reported that Danish doctors had converted him into a woman (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week, fittingly, it was the News which best answered the "who, what, when, where" as it reported Christine's gala homecoming. Said the News: "Christine Jorgensen, the lad who became a lady, arrived home from Denmark yesterday, lit a cigarette like a girl, husked 'Hello' and tossed off a Bloody Mary like a guy, then opened her fur coat. Jane Russell has nothing to worry about...
...Schweppshire Lad. By 1940 Hooper had succeeded Woolton as managing director of Lewis's, Ltd., Woolton's chain of department stores in northern England. In 1942 Hooper quit. "It was very rejuvenating, I thought, to chuck it all in the bag at 50 and start something new," Hooper explains. The something new was to mix in Tory politics (at which he still worked closely with Woolton). He became public-relations director for the Ministry of Works, and later boss of Britain's veterans' resettlement program. He started his own firm of business consultants and, with Julian...
...Schweppigrams* and hired Stephen (Gamesmanship) Potter to write pun-laden ads about an imaginary locality called Schweppshire, with such landmarks as Schwepsom Downs, Schwepping Forest and Schwepstow Castle (noted because "Queen Elizabeth Schwept here"), and peopled by such notables as the poet Schwinburne and the author of the "Schweppshire Lad." With such high jinks Hooper tripled sales, and profits last year Schwept to a new high...