Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Anton R. Zhebrak is a Soviet geneticist who has enjoyed international respect. Like most reputable scientists, he has believed in the Morgan-Mendelian theory of genetics (i.e., hereditary characteristics are controlled by genes which cannot be altered by ordinary environmental conditions). That belief made him a heretic in Russia, where science must take the Communist view that Environment Is All. Last year Zhebrak was roundly denounced by Pravda for admitting in the U.S. weekly, Science, that many Russian geneticists still uphold Mendel's laws (TIME, Sept...
Journey into Squalor. Her work began in Philadelphia, when she was "about 18." It was then that she heard of a wealthy lady who had founded a new Catholic order. Katharine Drexel, daughter of a Morgan partner, had been troubled by the squalor of Indian life she had seen on a trip through the West. In Rome later, she begged Pope Leo XIII to do something about it. "Why don't you become a missionary yourself?" the Pope replied. Katharine Drexel did, and gathered together in the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament a group of women who devoted their...
...Process. In Philadelphia, traffic court Magistrate Jacob Dogole called it a day after 1) Mrs. Elizabeth C. Morgan, charged with lending a motorcycle to an unlicensed driver, proved she didn't own one, 2) Helen Porreca, accused of illegal parking at a certain address, proved there was no such street, 3) Edward Gishen, also up for illegal parking, proved that he was out of town with his car at the time, 4) Timothy Credan and William J. Leahan Jr., charged with passing stop lights, proved there were no such lights...
Born. To Edward Vincent ("Eddie") Bracken, 34, cinecomic (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), and Connie Nickerson Bracken, 34, onetime Broadway actress: their fourth child, third daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan Kathleen. Weight...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...