Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Johns Hopkins' Pharmacologist John Jacob Abel, 75, assumed the A. A. A. S. presidency, succeeding Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas, 74. For 1934 president the Association chose Princeton's Astronomer Henry Norris Russell, 55, after he had presented his interpretation of starlight. The light might be the effect of 1) hydrogen and the lighter elements synthesizing into heavier elements, or 2) heavy star material burning to nothing. Professor Russell prefers the synthesis theory, for burning "would not happen except at temperatures of many billions of degrees," whereas "heat should be produced [by atomic synthesis] fast enough...
...stable, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congressman from the first (North Long Island) district. He had the support of Democratic bosses against his friend, tall, handsome Robert Low Bacon, incumbent. Congressman Bacon, 48, onetime Harvard athlete son of rich, famed Robert Bacon, was once designated by Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as "the wholesome, effective type of future American." Candidate Whitney, twice married, is a grandson of William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland, great-grandson of Ohio's Senator Henry B. Payne...
Were American Indians Polynesians? Ales Hrdlicka (Smithsonian anthropologist now in Alaska) is certain that Mongolian-like peoples traveled across Bering Strait and eventually became Amerinds. Helen H. Roberts (of Yale's Institute of Human Relations) last week argued that Amerinds were originally Polynesians transported by canoe from the Pacific Islands. The Polynesian and American aborigines seem to have made cultural contacts long before European ships joined the two primitive races. Mis Roberts bases her arguments on 60 remarkable similarities between Polynesian and Amerind customs. Both groups make flutes of human bones, blow them through their noses, have conches for trumpets...
...form into fighting squads of six. The Yawalapiti were going to battle the huge creature circling down upon them. The women ran into the jungle, ripping off their uluri (genital charms) as sacrifice to the demon. But the village site was too small for the plane to land. Anthropologist Petrullo & Victrola-Hein Johnson dropped a sack full of good-will offerings upon the village, flew back south...
Here was a precious situation for An-thropology?an utterly indigenous, primitive people who had developed language, religion and customs from anciently lost seeds ? which Anthropologist Petrullo with pencil and camera zealously documented. From the pristine Yawalapiti and their neighbors may be learned much about