Word: deductionism
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To keep the ideas flowing and allow himself time for second thoughts requires split-second scheduling, and Anhalt has taken to dictating to himself into a tiny microphone clipped onto the lapel of his jacket and picked up by a transistorized tape recorder at his side as he tears along...
Magnificent Deduction. Launching and outfitting any new museum involves prodigious effort. The old county museum was an attic for archaeology and science as well as art. "It was a historical anomaly," says Director Brown, "really a 16th century Wunderkammer, with everything but a unicorn's horn and an ostrich...
One day in 1957, Norton Simon startled museum trustees by offering matching funds for a separate art museum. Museum President Edward Carter, a shrewd retailer (Broadway-Hale Stores) as well as chairman of the University of California's Board of Regents, set out to raise $4,500,000, and...
Hit for $23,617 in back federal taxes, Contractor John J. Sexton countered with a remarkable claim for depreciating the 88.8-acre garbage dump that he owns in Chicago. Had he bought it for normal use, he said, the land would have cost $44,000. But the seller, realizing what...
It is difficult to say what has made Bloch so successful in one of the most baffling fields of modern inquiry. According to him, the element of chance has played an enormous role in his work. "Biochemistry is still a fairly new subject, and so progress is often a matter...