Holding court: how I came to know Barbara McClintock -- An unconventional childhood -- Genetics in the Roaring '20s -- From botany scholar to maize cytologist: fact, fiction, and faulty memories -- The golden age of corn genetics: cornfests, cornfabs, and cooperation -- Awards and recognition: chromosome structure and behavior -- Missouri compromise, tenure or freedom?: Barbara McClintock leaves academe -- The road to transposition -- Resignation, renewal, and reorganization -- Coming home again: Andrew Dickson White, professor-at-large, Cornell University -- Golden age of corn genetics: reprise -- Unshared Nobel prize and inclusive recognition.
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