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Extinct Animals. On vacation a few days later, he went to Santa Fe and told Anthropologist Fred Wendorf of the Museum of New Mexico about his bones and points. Dr. Wendorf was so enthusiastic that Glasscock gave him the whole collection. Soon Wendorf and a group of learned colleagues were digging a trench at the Midland site. They found a few more bone fragments, and six months later, in a full-dress expedition, found a selection of ice-age animals, most of which were probably extinct before the period of Folsom man. It looked as if both human and animal...
Citation: "World famous political scientist, anthropologist and educator; keen scholar . . . loyal representative of this nation as principal director, department of trusteeship, the United Nations . . . People are his chief concern, and nations are his classroom...
Huntingtonism was seldom well received by anthropologists or by real-estate promoters of hot countries. In the Florida Anthropologist, Anthropology Professor Frederick R. Wulsin of Tufts (in cool Massachusetts) comes to the defense of the tropical and semitropical climates. It's not either the heat or the humidity, Dr. Wulsin says: it is over-dressing that robs tropical residents of their energy...
Died. Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton, 66, Harvard anthropologist and author (Apes, Men and Morons) who, from his skull-littered desk, lectured for birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of the mentally and physically defective; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Hooton's low opinion of Homo sapiens ("Gadgets and machines are getting better and better while men are getting worse and worse") once brought a demand upon the Massachusetts legislature for a probe of his "inhuman" teachings...
Hooton won the respect and friendship of those who worked with him. Said Clyde K. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, last night, "He was certainly the leading physical anthropologist in the United States, and posibly in the world. A very high proportion of physical anthropologist in this country and abroad were trained by him. On top of being a great scientist he was a fine human being--one of the finest I've known...