Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enter Radiation. About this time a new thing happened to genetics. Since the beginning, geneticists had regretted the scarcity of mutated flies, corn. etc.. to work with. The scarcity ended in 1926 when Professor Hermann J. Muller. now of Indiana University, discovered that X rays applied to fruit flies or any other living organism, create a wealth of mutations, apparently by damaging the genes in their chromosomes. Muller, too, won a Nobel Prize, and soon most genetics laboratories had X-ray machines and were buzzing with dwarfed, twisted, crippled or half-alive fruit flies whose ancestors had been Xrayed...
...only three campaign trips, wound up with a whopping victory. One source of his success: an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Democrats and old Non-partisan Leaguers who crossed party lines to pay their respects to Wild Bill. Langer's lightweight Democratic opponent in November: State Senator Ray Vendsel...
Boniface Maksik operated on the theory of low minimum and high capacity (2,000 a show) to get him off the nut. He shelled out as high as $40,000 a week for boffo biz getters like Jerry Lewis, Johnnie Ray, Harry Belafonte, but not all of his headliners paid their way. This season only Lewis and Belafonte were black...
Whatever the mechanics of cancer causation, early detection is essential. A case in point: lung cancer, which will not show up in chest X ray during its earlier stages. When it does show, it is often too late. The trick has been to get cells from lung secretions to make "Papanicoulaou smears" like those made famous in detecting cancer of the cervix and uterus...
...some 400 fan letters a day, wear T shirts emblazoned with the .face of Mad's grinning imp Alfred E. ("What-me worry?") Neuman, and treasure old issues like collector's items. Maddiction also has become a cult in some adult circles. Comics Ernie Kevacs, Bob and Ray, Henry Morgan and Orson Bean contribute frequently and willingly for next to nothing...