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...kind of newspaper assignment Gene Fowler relished in the 1920s was to be told by his managing editor to find a deserving old gentleman for a monkey-gland rejuvenation operation. When a scholarly greybeard named Mr. Bacon came into the New York American's offices primed with schemes of calendar reform and admitted, conversationally, to two carnal thoughts a year "at the most," Fowler knew he had his man. He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon...
From a short hitch as assistant powder monkey in a Colorado gold mine. Keys came home with a new straw hat and $75 -and finally stayed long enough to finish high school. A budding chemist in his freshman year at the University of California at Berkeley, he loaded up with brain-crushing courses (chemistry, physics, calculus, German, Chinese, English), worked 30 hours a week in the university library, took his classmates for "$20 or $30 a month" playing bridge, and kept a big bag of dried apricots beside his dormitory bed. That spring, embittered by his failure to capture...
Soyer will go to melodramatic lengths to show his distaste for nonobjective painting. In one lecture he displayed slides of five abstract paintings, defied his audience to tell him which two were done by professional artists and which was the work of a parrot, a monkey, and a child m nursery school. "What satisfaction does one get from painting in a way that requires no knowledge, no technical skill? What pride in accomplishment can one have? Nonrepresentational art is nothing more than personalized decoration " says Soyer firmly, if barely audibly. "Good representational art is something for contemplation. Like building cathedrals...
...collaborator. British genealogists wistfully recalled that Kennedy's late sister Kathleen was the wife of the Marquess of Hartington, a nephew of Lady Dorothy. But the Spectator's editor, Ian Gilmour, predicted: "America under a Kennedy administration is going to be an exciting place. Europe will need monkey glands to keep up." One British official countered hopefully: "While the Prime Minister is older, we think he has a young mind...
...electron microscope. Up to 500 times as powerful as the best optical microscope, the electron microscope has already given man his first look at viruses and promises to become one of medicine's most useful tools. Says Physicist Hillier, 45: "The electron microscope is like the monkey wrench on the garage wall; what you do with it is the important thing." Other Lasker Award winners...