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...Houssay's award set a precedent: no South American scientist had ever been en-Nobeled before. To the independent, 60-year-old Argentine, who was fired from the University of Buenos Aires by Dictator Juan Perón, the Nobel windfall ($24,460, half the prize) would come in handy. The award was for Houssay's studies of the pituitary, the tiny gland at the base of the brain. He had shown that pituitary hormones, like messengers from a general staff headquarters, control the activity of all other ductless glands in the body. He had also discovered that...
Hollywood, which is said to be dickering for the novel, should be able to cast this machine-turned story in roughly five minutes. Gregory Peck would be a natural for the lean, dedicated young atomic scientist. Dorothy McGuire would be the girl who cures him of a wartime neurosis and ultimately wins his love; Walter Huston her fabulously wealthy father with entry into every embassy in Europe; and, possibly, Sidney Greenstreet as a Nazi physicist who swipes a valuable discovery from the scientist...
...genius of the calculator is that it can deal with many variables operating simultaneously. In the fluid and changing battleground of economics, sociology, and social relations, one or two unknowns added to the equation render it practically insoluble by pencil and paper. For perhaps the first time the social scientist has the opportunity to face, instead of "assume" the conditions of his problem. Just because he never has struggled with precise reality before is no reason why the Provost's committee shouldn't give him a chance--on the calculator...
Fiftyish Gaus looks out on the panorama of men living with one another through deep brown eyes backed by a mind that is a compound of the soft-boiled romantic and the methodical social scientist. One moment his fancy turns to roaming Chicago's like front and standing back to scan story-packed skyline. The next he is advising a governmental agency on nuances of procedural policy. Here lies perhaps the key portion of his career. In his years at Madison he guided the Wisconsin Executive Council through its pioneer efforts to relieve the excessive burden on the legislature...
...wrote the current bestseller, Human Destiny (TIME, Feb. 24). In it he assembled impressive scientific and mathematical data to demonstrate that life could not have been the result of a chance combination of elements. Life, he said, must have been created for some long-range purpose. This purposiveness Scientist du Noüy called "telefinality." Mankind-the highest and most complex life-form of all-must, he believed, go on developing in the direction of spirituality, as exemplified by Christ...