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Last April Su-Lin died. The body was given to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History for dissection. By last week Anatomist D. Dwight Davis had nearly made up his mind that the panda, the bear and the raccoon shared a common ancestor. He had completely made up his mind about something else: Su-Lin was a male...
...Their play-acting was not up to Chinatown's level. But the music, delicately played on half-a-dozen unfamiliar exotic instruments, was as tangy and pungent as a 25-year-old egg. While Musician Sung Yue-tuh drew subtle wheezes from the sheng (4,639-year-old ancestor of the harmonica), and Wang Wen-piao sawed at his erh-hu (two-string fiddle), the audience took it politely. But when Professor Wei Chung-loh of China's Ta Tung National Research Institute swung out on his p'i p'a (traditional guitar of the ancient...
...apologies for a mistake. Both M. de Lesseps and the Marques de Casa Fuerte, grandnephew of the Empress Eugenie, sought injunctions to have Suez suppressed in France. Last week, in a Paris court, the referee rejected both petitions on the ground that the film does not offend either ancestor "perniciously," contains "charming naïveties as well as inaccuracies...
Once every few months, and always for the summer, Elizabeth Bowen goes to Bowen's Court, County Cork, Ireland, an enormous, 18th-Century grey stone house, on land given to her ancestor, a Welsh Captain Bowen, by Cromwell. She inherited it in 1931. Despite its lack of electricity and plumbing, she likes it better than any place on earth...
...Ancestor Louis is commonly recognized as the greatest professor the University ever had in zoology. As the foremost figure in American science Louis bitterly fought the ideas which Darwin gave to the world about the evolution of man from...