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...legislature investigated the university. Summoned for questioning, Psychologist Ralph H. Gundlach, Philosophy Professor Herbert J. Phillips and Joseph Butterworth of the English department refused to say whether they were members of the party or not. Three more-E. Harold Eby and Garland O. Ethel of the English department and Anthropologist Melville Jacobs-said that they had been, but were no longer. President Raymond B. Allen and a faculty committee on tenure and academic freedom undertook to investigate further...
Died. Robert Stephen Briffault, 72, hawk-nosed novelist, anthropologist and World War I surgeon; of tuberculosis; in Sussex, England (where he recently arrived after a 20-year self-imposed exile in France). A British-born Anglophobe, Briffault left medicine for the social sciences, in 1927 writing The Mothers, an exhaustive study of matriarchies, and in 1938 scornfully castigating his country in The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (Britons were too soft to survive). His novels (Europa; Europa in Limbo) presented European upper-class society as too diseased to be worth saving...
...came in for some sharp criticism, notably from two British writers. After seven years in the U.S., Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer decided that its people were terribly lonely and everlastingly fearful of looking like sissies. He came about as close to the mark as gadabout anthro-pologists-on-grant usually do. More pretentious was leftish Harold Laski's American Democracy, a glib, fat examination of the U.S. with capitalism as its aboriginal villain...
Last week everybody on the New Jersey campus, from President Robert C. Clothier to the newest freshman (and including secretaries and janitors), was tackling the first "Book of the Year": Anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. The campus Philosophean Society had picked it on Peterson's say-so: he called it "a noble, beautiful, important book." If they get through the first one, he has some more up his sleeve: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland...
...current American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Anthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart, of Johannesburg, gives the Transvaal pygmies their biggest boost up the evolutionary ladder. At one time, Dart had called them Australopithecus (southern ape). Now he wishes that he had named them Homunculus (little man). They appear to have been brainy beyond their size and times. Their brainpans (650 cc) were almost as big as those of their bigger (5 ft. 8 in.) contemporaries, the Men of Java...