Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western scientists, approving this declaration, will follow Haldane carefully. If he goes to Prague, they will note what happens to him if he deviates from the party's scientific line. The line itself is none too clear, and devout Communist geneticists may eventually get into trouble if they stick to it. Last week Nobel Prizewinning Dr. H. J. Muller, a leading U.S. geneticist, pointed out a doctrinal time bomb that threatens Lysenko's followers. The Lysenko doctrine, said Muller, teaches that the heredity of organisms is shaped by their environments. When applied to the evolution of man, said...
While I'm on the subject of Radcliffe, here's a note for the Radcliffe freshmen. Sixty percent of you will be taken out by Harvard men and like it. Thirty percent will be taken out by Harvard men and won't like it. That leaves ten percent, and nothing can be done about...
Last week, introducing his friend to Star readers, Broadway Pressagent Richard Maney wrote: "Lardner will introduce at least one revolutionary note into dramatic criticism. He'll back his opinions with cash. Do you think that Boston has more people than Baltimore . . . that Bill Terry never hit .400? If you do it will cost you money to talk to Lardner. It's neither ballast nor diaries which bulge his jerkin. They're loose-leaf ledgers tabulating his daily speculations...
Complaint Dept. In Colorado Springs, G. E. Dell recovered his stolen 1939 sedan with a surly note from the thief: "Your car ain't no damn good...
Taking its cue, the Academy hastily dashed off a note to Scientist Stalin: "You, our dear leader and teacher, have helped Soviet scientists day in, day out, to develop our progressive materialist science serving the people in all its labors and exploits, a science expressing the ideology and lofty aims of the man of the new Socialist society . . . Advanced biological science rejects and pillories the erroneous idea that nature cannot be guided by the human control of conditions...