Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other small organisms as genetic tools. Out of its use flowed a new attitude toward genetics. No longer were genes considered abstract units of heredity. They became actual things, not entirely understood but known to be concerned with definite chemical actions. Professor Joshua Lederberg, 33, of the University of Wisconsin, probably the world's leading young geneticist, says that the Neurospora work at Stanford clinched the whole idea that genes control enzymes, and enzymes control the chemistry of life...
...private sanctums of Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He played a leading part in covering the 1952 and 1956 presidential nominating conventions for TIME, crisscrossed the U.S. both before and during the campaigns. He dogged the footsteps of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy for six years, and his work resulted in two memorable cover stories (TIME, Oct. 22, 1951; March 8, 1954). Among the many other covers on which McConaughy reported: Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, McCarthy Committee Lawyer Ray Jenkins, Georgia's Senator Walter George. Last...
American composer to watch: Wisconsin-born Lee Hoiby, 33, whose first opera, The Scarf, had its première last week at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto (TIME, June 23). Based on a Chekhov short story, the opera tells of a Circe-like enchantress who sits in an isolated farmhouse on blizzardy nights and without the knowledge of her aging husband, lures in passing bucks with a wave of her crimson scarf, symbolizing her occult powers. After a postman spends the night, the husband rebels; the wife silences him by strangling him with her scarf. At Spoleto last...
...audience successes: a curtain-raising production of Verdi's early, daringly experimental Macbeth, given a sharply profiled, showily romantic reading by Conductor Schippers; a tensely moving performance of Eugene O'Neill's Moon for the Misbegotten; four "chamber ballets" by Choreographer John Butler. Still to come: Wisconsin-born Composer Lee Hoiby's opera The Witch, Florentine Composer Valentino Bucchi's Il Giuoco del Barone, the Daudet-Bizet L'Arlésienne...
...marine arsenal. This year the 29th Biennale exhibited 446 artists from 37 countries, needed 115 halls to hold 3,533 works. For the first time since Whistler won with his Little White Girl in 1895, the jury crowned an American painter. Winner of the international painting award ($2,400): Wisconsin-born Seattle Painter Mark Tobey, 67 (TiME, July 22), whose sensitive oils of squirming lines of light had already attracted critical applause. Top international prize for sculpture ($2,400) went to Spain's Eduardo Chillida, 34, whose spiky forgings were among the most avant-garde entries...