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Nebraska Farm Boy. These basic facts of genetics were becoming known about the time Geneticist George Beadle was born in 1903. His father ran a small, progressive farm near Wahoo, Neb. (1900 pop. 900). His mother died when he was four, leaving him, his brother and sister to be mothered, after a fashion, by a succession of hired housekeepers. He remembers farm life in general with pleasure, but he still dislikes cream because he had to skim it off endless milk pans...
...Wahoo was not noted for learning half a century ago, but its less-than-perfect school system did not slow or discourage Beadle's active mind. He made his own lunch, generally jelly sandwiches (he still hates jelly sandwiches) and walked the three-mile round trip to school. When he earned a little money by such rural operations as keeping bees and trapping muskrats, he bought garlic bolognas (two for 5?) at the Bohemian butcher shop...
...Heart Knows ... In Wahoo, Neb., when his wife spotted a wild blue goose flying by their house. Bill Behrens honked hopefully at it, found the bird liked his voice, held it in conversation while his wife got his shotgun, heeded her warning against hunting inside city limits, got in his car, kept honking as he drove slowly into open country, got out, honked again, blitzed the beguiled goose...
...plush playground, Wenner-Gren in 1951 picked flat Andros, biggest (104 miles long) of the Bahama Islands. Andros has not prospered much since pirate times; the population, mostly Negro, is still under 10,000. But it has splendid white beaches, a sunny, breeze-cooled climate and enough bonefish, wahoo, tarpon, blue teal, ducks and wild pigs to win rave notices from rod-and-gun editors. Spending $2,000,000, Wenner-Gren built a luxurious Lighthouse Club (with appointments in silver) and a well-fitted yacht club. The resort opened last month...
Love Points the Way. Darryl Zanuck made his movie debut playing an Indian maiden on an early lot at $1 a day. That was just eleven years after his birth on Sept. 5, 1902, in Wahoo, Neb. (pop. 3,300). Worried about his health, his Methodist parents-Frank Zanuck, an Iowa-born hotel clerk of Swiss parentage and Louise Torpin Zanuck, a Nebraskan of English stock-moved to Los Angeles when Darryl was six. His mother cut his early movie career short as soon as she caught sight of him in Indian costume...