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...intersex abnormalities have one or even two extra female (X) chromosomes. Within the chromosomes, a defective gene may fail in its function because a single fraction of its nucleic acid molecule is aberrant and inutile. The time may come, suggested the Rockefeller Institute's Geneticist Edward L. Tatum, when medical men will be able to replace a defective gene with a specially tailored nucleic acid molecule, or to boost a patient's deficient supply of functioning molecules with an injection of the right kind. If that day comes, man will be close to controlling the fashioning...
...strapping (6 ft. 4 in.) Oklahoma farm boy with huge hands (his nickname is "Goose," after onetime Harlem Globetrotter Goose Tatum, who could make a basketball look like a BB shot in his vast paws), Martin began pole vaulting on a dare. Challenged by seventh-grade friends to enter the event in a school meet, Martin did-"and I was terrible." Humiliated, he walked into the woods, cut down a young locust tree and, using it as a pole, began practicing...
Married. Marine Corps Reserve Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, 46, World War II ace (28 Japanese planes), reformed tosspot and bestselling autobiographer (Baa Baa Black Sheep); and TV Actress Dolores ("Dee") Tatum, 33; he for the third time ("first time I've been married sober"), she for the second; in Denver...
...Maryland student paper was not sad to see him go: Tatum's tenure "was an era in which an inadequate stadium became ultra-adequate, and an inadequate library became more inadequate." Nor was the North Carolina student paper glad to see him come-"this parasitic monster of open professionalism...
...blasts, worked so hard at his job that he landed in a hospital, gradually won a place at his old school. This season, with 24 returning lettermen, was to be the year for North Carolina. But fortnight ago, his huge 240-lb. body covered with a red rash, Jim Tatum was rushed to the university hospital. Doctors diagnosed an overwhelming attack of a "common type of virus" that had affected his vital organs. Last week, at 45, Coach Jim Tatum died...