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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time New Yorkers looked seriously at the facts of Harlem life: ^ Harlem covers three square miles in the northern section of Manhattan above Central Park. It is an anthropologist's heaven, bulging with a population of 250,-ooo American, African and West Indian Negroes, 125,000 Puerto Ricans, 150,000 Italians, Chinese, Filipinos, East Indians, Haitians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Door-Key Children | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

APPLEBY ON ARARAT-Michael Innes-Dodd, Mead ($2). A learned Scotland Yarder, marooned with five other loquacious characters on remote Pacific islet, elucidates the slaying of Sir Ponto Unumunu, black anthropologist, and goes on to puncture an Empire-threatening secret of oddly assorted indigenes. Overtones of Evelyn Waugh, G. K. Chesterton and E. P. Oppenheim make it a treat for those who like their mysteries recondite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in September | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...subhuman, that their victims are scarcely more than caricatures of human fallibility. But the drugstore-library sensationalism that still overhangs Cain's work does not stop him from being one of the most readable storytellers in the U.S. He has broadened his subject matter and, with a cruel anthropologist's tenacity, virtually wrung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Season's Ugliest | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Vinci seems first to have noticed that widths of tree rings vary in wet and dry years, but there is a big gap between his discovery and a history of tree rings that chronicles Midwest weather as far back as 1300 A.D.-a study released this week by Anthropologist Florence May Hawley of the University of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tree Clocks | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

TIME, April 1, announced under Milestones the death of Professor Eugene Dubois, Dutch anthropologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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