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Born in the mill town of Windsor Locks just outside Hartford, Ella Tambussi was the only child of Italian immigrants. She won a scholarship to the elite Chaffee School, and her father worked 14-hour shifts in a bakery to pay for her books. Another scholarship took her to Massachusetts' Mount Holyoke College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1940. After earning a master's degree in economics and sociology, she became a protégée of John Bailey, longtime boss of the Connecticut Democratic organization...
...married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo Tyson (Mason Adams), may have produced teen-age Skipper Weldon (Woody Brown), who aims to elope with Waitress Annabelle Troy (Dianne Kay), who dies in a fire at Claude's mill that was planned by Truro's venal sheriff, Titus Semple (Howard Duff...
Cairns, who in 1960 made significant discoveries about the replication of DNA, was formerly the director of the Mill Hill Laboratories of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Great Britain. He plans to continue his research of the effects of mutagenic elements (DNA-damaging substances) on common bacterial cells. His work may have implications for understanding how cells protect themselves from carcinogens in the environment...
Cairns, who in 1960 made significant discoveries about the replication of DNA, will be leaving his position as director of the Mill Hill Laboratories of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Great Britain. Cairns said Friday that he accepted the Harvard appointment because it would allow him to teach as well as continue his research in cancer causes...
Before directing the Mill Hill Laboratories, Cairns was professor of Microbiology at Stonybrook College in Long Island...