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Honors have piled up for Counsilman. Indiana recently awarded him its 1963 Leather Medal for bringing "the most distinction to the university." (Among the previous winners: Sexpert Alfred Kinsey, Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Hermann Muller.) The A.A.U. has just named him head coach of the U.S.'s 1964 Olympic swimming team. And five rival Big Ten swimming coaches, for whom Counsilman's success has meant nothing but hurt, pain, agony, have paid him an ultimate tribute: they refuse to compete against Indiana in a two-team meet...
...bionucleonic lab at Purdue. Physics students will gain access to the biotron at Wisconsin. Besides specialized schools and equipment, students will be able to seek out star scholars-Iowa's Space Scientist James Van Allen, Illinois' Nobel Physicist John Bardeen, Indiana's Geneticist Hermann Muller...
...they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts such influential leaders as British Biologist Julian Huxley and two Nobel prizewinners, British Agriculturist Lord Boyd Orr and U.S. Geneticist Hermann Muller...
...theater, sitting there opening night "smiling," as one critic described it, "his bland Oriental smile." According to the columns, when his brother later asked him what he thought of The Cigarette Girl, he suavely declared: "It was nostalgic." The critics were not so diplomatic. "Unspeakable .drivel," "said Robert Muller in the Daily Mail. Said the Daily Express' Herbert Kretzmer: "The Cigarette Girl quickly qualified as the most dismal and abysmal heap of rubbish to be mounted in London-in the sacred name of enterainment-in living memory." The play was a smoked-out butt after six performances, and Playwright...
Although subscribers are charged $2 a year, Overtones will remain largely a labor of love. Except for Editor Muller. who is paid $100 a month, it has no staff; proofreaders, secretaries and others at the Lighthouse's Braille press have simply taken on the added duty of producing Overtones four times a year. Rock-bottom cost per year is $2,500-and, as circulation grows, so will the deficit. But Editor Muller is counting on other gifts to keep Overtones going. "You have no idea," says he, "what this sort of thing means to a blind person...