Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrote the Atlanta Constitution's Ralph McGill: "It is a melancholy business, and it is the more so because it is a reflection on all of us. That so many millions hang on the results of the quizzes, in which sterile parrot knowledge was put to artificial use, was a commentary on our public values." As if to support McGill's point, the New York Daily News's inquiring photographer asked six New Yorkers a $64,000 question: "Would you have any qualms about appearing on a [rigged] quiz show?" Answered five...
...solid international reputation. Then, during a recording session, he felt a sudden cramp in his right hand, was barely able to finish playing Liszt's Melancholy Waltz. Although X rays disclosed no abnormality in the hand, neither cortisone nor treatment by a neurologist was able to restore full use to De Groot's fingers. He set about learning what left-hand compositions he could find, soon decided that there were not enough to keep a concert career going...
...enzyme build up nucleic acids and, in effect, create a synthetic form of RNA. Brooklyn-born Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 41, graduated from the City College of New York at 19. Working for his M.D. at the University of Rochester, he picked up hepatitis, put the experience to good use by publishing his first paper ("The Occurrence of Jaundice in Otherwise Normal Medical Students") while still a student. Explaining his year at N.Y.U. to learn about enzymes from Ochoa, Kornberg says: "I got tired of feeding things into one end of an experiment and watching something come out of the other...
Seeking to secure "enough directors with the training necessary to make good use of the Loeb Drama Center," the Harvard Dramatic Club and Steven Aaron '57 have instituted a new workshop in directing, Joel F. Henning '61, President of the HDC, announced last night...
...worked on passing all week figuring Harvard's pass defense was its biggest weakness, but then, today it was our running which was so good....Crout and Gundy are our key men. It's great to have them both whole now. This was the first time we could use both of them full time. We didn't think Penn was overpowering. Harvard's got a good chance to knock them...