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Politely and clearly the Kremlin told Cordell Hull to keep hands off the Soviet Union's dispute with the Polish Government in Exile. Conditions had not ripened enough for U.S. participation, Moscow added, carefully leaving the door ajar...
...maned Aleš Hrdlička (pronounced Alesh Hur-dlich-ka), second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate braininess, dug up an Aleutian skull larger than Daniel Webster's. Hrdli...
...score of industrial areas. With the slow realization that the home front is as important as the fighting front, employers--with a little prodding by Government agencies--are opening fields hitherto closed to the Negro. Shipbuilding, the converted automobile industry, the iron and steel plants are leaving their doors ajar, and a few Negroes are slipping in. These developments represent encouraging beginnings, but they are only beginnings. Ordnance plants and the machine tool industries have not yet erased the color line. The Committee on Fair Employment Practice is beginning to aid in the placement and training of the Negro...
...this eccentric circle was not the healthiest one for a spinster afflicted with intermittent lunacy. But Mary Lamb seems to have felt quite at home in it. At times when she did not, or when Charles, who was something of a tosspot (Mary used to leave his bedroom door ajar so that Charles would not have to fumble at the latch), was reforming, the Lambs would go for a browse in the country. On one vacation they estimated that they walked 350 miles...
Uncle Dave Macon, age 70, has gold uppers, alfalfa on his chin, sometimes sports pink gates-ajar collars. He has a ready rube wit. an endless repertory of high jinks, and plays three five-stringed banjos at once. Uncle Dave sets the tone & tune of Grand Ol' Opry, a radio program many plain folk in the South vastly prefer to Charlie McCarthy or Jack Benny...