Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three most salient drug advances of the 20th century, vitamins, hormonal medicine and antibacterial "wonder" drugs, the first continues to lead the list in everyday importance. Last week Dr. Casimir Funk, the quiet biochemist whose research ranged through two of these fields and led him to the discovery of vitamins in 1911, died of cancer at 83 in Albany...
...Small wonder that space is almost as precious to the British Museum as its best-known treasure, the Elgin marbles. To end the congestion, the museum trustees have for 20 years been looking ahead to the prospect of building an annex across the square, and Britain's governments have allotted more than $5,000,000 toward the purchase of necessary land. Last month, however, the Secretary of State for Education and Science, Patrick Gordon Walker, announced that the Labor government had scrapped its plans for a museum addition. Even more shocking was his hint that the museum...
Hugh Hefner has one by his bedside, and Capitol Records could think of nothing more delightful to give to the Beatles for a present. Small wonder, considering what the girls are like. Slightly more astonishing is that the slender, sexy, epoxy-resin swingers molded by Illinois Sculptor Frank Gallo, 34, also spice up museums from Caracas, Venezuela, to Baltimore, Milwaukee, and even Victoria, Australia...
Rumors have been circulating for nearly a year that Millionaire Jerry Wolman's financial empire is on the verge of crumbling. Last week in Philadelphia. 40-year-old Wolman, onetime boy wonder of the construction industry and still the owner of 52% of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, admitted that he is indeed in big trouble. Stung by the morning Inquirer's speculating on his finances, Wolman called a press conference at the unusual hour of 8:30 a.m., presumably to give the more friendly afternoon Bulletin his side of the story. He announced that...
...first downbeat at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees that the Orchestre de Paris was a striking departure from the Parisian norm. Its 110 members were predominantly young (average age: 35). They were dressed alike in midnight blue Pierre Cardin tails with shawl collars and burgundy sashes. And wonder of wonders, they played together, and beautifully...