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...mechanic stepfather, he won a lycee scholarship at eight, relentlessly mastered Greek, Latin, English and mathematics, at 20 placed first in philosophy among 250 candidates for France's highest scholastic competition, the Agrègation. In 1932, with his gifted bride of a year, Tunis-born Anthropologist Georgette Fagot,* he set off for Mexico, there spent most of the next seven years in anthropological study of the Mexican Indians. By 1939 he had won a doctorate, the nickname "Jacques the Aztec," and a reputation as one of France's top experts on Mexico...
Vinigi Grottanelli, Italian anthropologist, and Maria Grendi, of Florence's II Ponte, spoke on "Perspective on Italy," in the second half of the program...
...Memorial Day, Bryan and the Belond could expect a stiff fight from the car with the fastest qualifying time: the Racing Associates Special, complete with cockpit built to the specifications of Driver Johnny Thomson, after an anthropologist took his measurements to determine the most comfortable driving position for a man of Thomson's size (5 ft. 7 in., 150 lbs.). Thomson's average qualifying speed: a hefty 145.908 m.p.h. Another advantage: he will start from the No. i pole position...
Murder and suicide are different manifestations of the same psychological disease--blind anger, according to reports released yesterday by two University researchers. Dr. Daniel H. Funkenstein, Clinical Associate in Psychiatry, and Dr. Hazel M. Hitson, an anthropologist in the Social Relations Department, studied mental hospital records and human behavior patterns to reach their conclusions...
...high official. But at all other times his missionary zeal is best defined by a plaque that hangs in the walnut-paneled Detroit office where he reigns as boss of American Motors. A facetious gift from the Cleveland Auto Dealers Association, it reads: "To George Romney, critic, lecturer, anthropologist, white hunter of the American dinosaur...