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Earnest Albert Hooton, Harvard's pessimistic, publicity-wise anthropologist, who has long reported that men are reverting to apes, plumped for a woman President of the U.S., claimed that women "could hardly have made a worse mess" of world affairs than that made by men. He declared that women's "capacity for moral self-deception is smaller than that of males . . . they see things black or white. . . ." He also hoped for a woman President, because "we should then have a first gentleman of the land, and some of us would rather be that than President...
...anthropologist who has never been in Japan has offered Allied leaders a new study of Japanese psychology. He is British-born Geoffrey Gorer, 39, anthropological researcher of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, now doing secret research in Washington for the British Government. He places great importance on the severe toilet training of Japanese infants...
...Lady Chatterley was discovered last spring by staid Author Esther Forbes (Paul Revere, and The World He Lived In, TIME, June 29, 1942) when she visited Santa Fe Anthropologist William Hougland. Hougland is the unofficial literary agent of Lawrence's widow, Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence.* He told Author Forbes about the present draft of Lady Chatterley which had remained in Lawrence's bound notebooks for 18 years...
Packed with such relationships between man and his bodily ailments is Human Constitution in Clinical Medicine (Hoeber; $3.50), by Dr. George Draper, Anthropologist C. Wesley Dupertuis and Dr. John Lyon Caughey Jr. of Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital.* Material for the book was gathered from the hospital's unique Constitution Clinic, founded in 1916. To find its facts the clinic uses Sheldon's system of calculating body build (TIME, July 15, 1940), rates each patient for androgyny (male and female characteristics), photographs patients nude (of 2,500, only four have refused), performs needed laboratory tests and interviews each...
...facts of Veblen's life will not be found in Duffus' graceful, charming, nostalgic memoir. A farm boy from a Norwegian settlement in Minnesota, Veblen had the habit of looking at the U.S. economic and social systems as though he were an aloof and coldly calculating anthropologist from another culture. He wrote sardonic books about the workings of the U.S. economy in a style that seems "desperately accurate" to some, a sort of elephantine, academic pig Latin to others...