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...Harvard's witty Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton once remarked, "There are not enough fossil men to go around among the physical anthropolo-gists." Hence the students of early human types must make the most of what they have. Two famed fossils of which much has been made are Peking man or Sinanthropus, found in the caves at Choukoutien about a decade ago by a Chinese scientist named Pei Wen-chung; and the Java apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus, discovered on the banks of Java's Bengaman River in 1892, by Dutch Anthropologist Eugene Dubois. Both of these oldsters appear...
SAVAGE SYMPHONY-Eva Lips-Random House ($3). Forthright account by the wife of Anthropologist Julius Lips (The Savage Hits Back) detailing the steps by which Nazis forced her husband from his post as director of the Museum of Ethnology in Cologne, then into exile-by searches, denunciations, cooked-up charges, a steadily intensifying atmosphere of fear...
...workman who uses his muscles gets bigger ones. Does the head of an intellectual who uses his brain constantly get bigger & bigger during his life? The Smithsonian Institution's Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka thinks so, has asked the world's brainy people who find their heads going up in size to let him know about...
...fair-skinned Georgia postman and his fair-skinned wife, Walter White is blond and palefaced. He himself does not know how much Negro blood runs in his veins; Harvard's far-ranging Anthropologist Earnest Alfred Hooton computes it at 1/64. But despite a skin that last week fooled fellow guests at Washington's Hay-Adams House, Walter White has always regarded himself as a Negro. He remembers that his father's house was almost burned down during an Atlanta race riot in his childhood. He recalls too that his father died in agony when the surgeons of the white ward...
Smithsonian Institution's able Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka pronounces himself Ah-leesh Hurd-leech...