Word: studiousness
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Joshua Lederberg, 35, is a balding biologist?and a genius. At 21, the studious son of a New Jersey rabbi, he was already making significant contributions to genetics. Working with his teacher, Edward Tatum, at Yale, he demonstrated that bacteria have a sex life of sorts. At 27, in collaboration with one of his own students at the University of Wisconsin, Lederberg discovered that bacteria infected with certain viruses may suffer hereditary changes. His work on this process, known as transduction, won him a Nobel Prize. Now, at Stanford's School of Medicine, Lederberg's latest cause for excitement...
...Hall, an alternate 400-meter sprinter on the 1960 Olympic team. Vic wore contact lenses and had not wanted to play football, but the weak team needed him for his exceptional speed, so he had agreed to play. There was Curtis Hill, an end from Bakersfield, a smiling, studious, religious boy who had walked the campus squeezing a tennis ball to strengthen his wrists. His friends recalled that he had hoped to play pro ball with the San Francisco 49ers. There was Tackle Rodney Baughn, who was engaged to marry a Cal Poly coed who had just bought her wedding...
...They belted out meticulous imitations of the legendary New Orleans bands of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds. To listeners remembering old Okeh and Paramount recordings, the effect was sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care that they even mastered the ascending intonation of the famous cry. "Oh, play that thing." near the record's end. And a jazz singer named Inge Brandenburg, 31, belted out her numbers with a phrasing and intonation that made her a dead ringer for Billie Holiday...
Among the ten Republican Senators up for re-election this year, none have supported President Eisenhower's policies with more consistent fervor than New Jersey's spare (5 ft.11½ in., 160 lbs.), studious Clifford Case, 56. Since he went to the Senate in 1955, Case has voted with the Administration 83.6% of the time. With this record Case has won a reputation as a solid-gold Modern Republican, but he has lost support of many Old Guard Republicans back in New Jersey. To oppose Case in next week's primary election , Old Guardists have...
...Manhattan skyline is an ever-changing panorama that has been pierced by 132 new office buildings since 1947 in the world's biggest building boom. One of the men who has done the most to change the skyline is a quiet, studious owner-builder named Erwin S. (for Service) Wolf son. Last week Wolfson, 57, was busy preparing for the biggest building job of its kind ever undertaken in New York City: a 59-story, $100 million Grand Central City that will rise just north of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal...