Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Myths & Marvels. Every half-hour a small group of museum visitors was ushered into a gallery that had been made over to look like a gimcracked Victorian theater. The antique chandelier dimmed, and on stage the "Magnificent Scenic Mirror" (which Rathbone had found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy...
Then, says Urey, the light stone core began to float up through the iron like a tennis ball through molasses. As it approached the surface, land appeared for the first time; the oceans were crowded to one side, as on the third day of biblical creation.* For a while the earth had only a single continent (Pangea), but the continuing rise of the core material and its spreading out near the surface broke Pangea into chunks and carried them apart. His theory, says Urey, accounts for the remarkable fact, first pointed out by Alfred Wegener in his theory of continental...
...Then Producer John Guedel saw him ad lib for ten minutes on a network show when Bob Hope accidentally dropped his script. Shortly thereafter Guedel put Groucho into You Bet Your Life. He still has some qualms: "Having Groucho as emcee of a quiz show is like using a Cadillac to haul coal...
...Groucho likes it fine. "In the old days they almost threw me off the air if I deviated from the script," he says. "I had to sign a written pledge that I would read only what was before me. But now I'm doing what comes naturally. It's like stealing money [$3,000 a week] to get paid for this...
Brilliant young Dubos went to work on a fantastic idea which, like many great ideas, was almost laughably simple: Why not feed disease germs to soil micro-organisms and see which species thrived on the diet...