Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jimmy Giuffre's The Pentatonic Man. In last week's concert, the band started stiffly, and the rhythm section never got completely untracked; but by the time they closed the set, the European cats were playing with the cohesive drive of a bunch of much-practiced pros...
...Beadle felt the benefit along with his colleagues. After getting his doctorate (in genetics) at Cornell in 1931, he went to the California Institute of Technology on a National Research Council fellowship. Dr. Morgan, grand maestro of the fruit flies, had moved there in 1928 to head the biology section, and several of his keenest disciples had come with him. Young Dr. Beadle found himself in the best genetic society...
...headed east across town, past the filthy, begrimed tenement brownstones where families loiter on the front stoops in the evening warmth, through the smelly, crowded section east of Park Avenue and over to East End Avenue. East River Drive was deserted. But near by, lolling against a slum tenement, were 25 boys and about ten girls, mostly Italian...
...Vienna in late 1956 when Austria beat Luxembourg 7-0. Almost every month, for the next year and a half, somewhere in the world national teams were playing for the privilege of going to Sweden. There were 53 entrants at the start of the competition and, in some sections, politics eliminated almost as many as defeats did on the playing field. The Afro-Asian section collapsed early, in angry disarray. Nationalist China withdrew rather than play Indonesia, which had defeated Red China. Turkey pulled out, claiming it should have been classed as European, not Afro-Asian. Neither Egypt nor Sudan...
...Charles E. McArthur of Olympia, Wash. noted that standards of physicians' medical care (except in university hospitals and a few private clinics) are among the nation's lowest-because of neglect. One big reason for such neglect, suggested Dr. McArthur, chairman of the A.M.A.'s section on general practice, is that smalltown G.P.s have limited access to specialists. And because each one feels that he "lives in a glass house," he hesitates to call in a small-town colleague...