Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing in a little British magazine, The Cornhill, Author Geoffrey Gorer, a British anthropologist, said: "If Americans are placed in a situation where they feel they are not loved, their natural tendency is to withdraw. . . . This is one component making for isolationism ... a reproduction on an international scale of the response, 'Let's get the hell out of here...
...true," agreed the Anthropologist who chaired the Office of War Information's Japanese morale survey from 1944 until the end of the war, "there are a lot of informal contacts between professors here and government agencies...
...effort to screen Communists from the pedagogic profession or to weed out alleged disloyalty was branded "a witch hunt" by the famous anthropologist, "which might take on political and partisan coloration...
Steppat's friend, Anthropologist Hell-mut De Terra, dug up Tepexpan Man last February near Mexico City. When Steppat saw the skull he decided to combine sculpture and science to give it an authentic face. He first considered dissecting corpses and measuring the average thickness of tissue on modern human faces. But he found that the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Wilton M. Krogman had done the job already, establishing the average thickness of face flesh at 15 points...
Died. Clark Wissler, 76, anthropologist, authority on the American Indian; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. As curator of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History, Wissler built one of the best collections of Indian material in the U.S., once delighted reporters by announcing: "Red hair has no influence whatever on the contour of legs...