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Isobel-Ann Butterfield, 34, U.S.-born, Radcliffe-educated wife of a London physician, was angry when she read modern interpretations of Joan's career that branded her insane. She began digging the evidence out of the archives, soon called in her husband John, 38, professor of experimental medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, to help her with the technical aspects. He eventually became as interested as she was, wound up doing a detective-style postmortem. In History Today, the Butterfields spin their evidence into a tight...
...dark backward and abysm of time, the first "living" thing was created, and evolution began. But even the simplest organism is made up of enormously complicated chemical compounds. How were these compounds produced in the slow aeons of the world's beginnings? Last week Dr. Melvin Calvin, professor of chemistry at the University of California, described some probable steps in the strange, speculative science of chemical evolution that led to the first glimmer of life...
...antique equipment, the company hung on through the '30s and the war years, in 1945 entered the postwar period with 713,453 telephones. The postwar shift to the suburbs and exurbs lifted that to 1,417,109 by 1951, when Power, a Winer Ohio State University economics professor, law partner of Senator John Bricker and general counsel to Ohio's Public Utilities Commission, took over as president. Last year's 3,000,000 subscribers were served by 28 subsidiaries operating in 5,306 U.S. communities, and in areas of Canada and the Dominican Republic...
...tests taken throughout life ensured that when IQ went up-or down -jobs changed accordingly. Mere age, of course, commands no respect in a meritocracy; as IQ dips in the fifth or sixth decade of life, Young writes, "the managing director had to become an office mechanic . . . the professor an assistant in the library. There have been judges who have become taxi drivers, bishops curates, and publishers writers...
James S. Ackerman, visiting lecturer in Fine Arts, J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, University Professor, and Renato Poggioli, chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature, participated at the first meeing of the group this past weekend...