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...famed Quaker Oats Company of Chicago does not confine its knowledge of psychology to America. Realizing that worshiping Japanese ape their divinely-descended royalty, sagacious salesmen foisted puffed-wheat upon the slant-eyed public by a gift to the Crown Prince of an elaborately engraved box just the size of a carton containing three dozen packages of cereal. Exploiting Reputation. Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year. These men gained control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Jul. 12, 1926 | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...productive of healthy offspring or not, could be induced. If it could, fresh and final evidence would be established that humans and anthropoids belong to a common genus of animal life. To be complete, the hybrid fertilization would have to be attempted upon females of both species, human and ape. Fully formed, healthy offspring, if they resulted, would not be regarded as "missing links," but as living proof that apes and men are species as closely allied as horses and asses which can be hybridized to produce mules or hinnies.* If an ape-man or man-ape hybrid should prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Men and Apes | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...particular of his earth-circling trip last year when he discovered a pure American Indian type among Asian aborigines; noted scattered strains of Negrito stock as far apart as India, Africa and the Philippines; studied towheaded Negroes in Australia; found fossils of a new type of big ape in the Siwalik Hills of Burma; a new place (the Solo Valley) to dig for remains of the Java ape man; two new cave men's skeletons in the Broken Hill country, Rhodesia, South Africa (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Medal | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...Anatomy are the studies of Dr. Dudley J. Morton, of the Yale Department of Surgery and the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, who showed to the satisfaction of his scientific audience that man is directly descended from an upright, walking anthropoid. The lowest form of living ape, the gibbon, is the only animal that runs on two feet like man. Other apes hop and leap or go to all fours when on the ground, and are never more than semierect in natural pose. Therefore, he concludes, their present posture has been acquired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Congresses | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...over by a horde of cockroach taxicabs. It was a "satire on the U. S. flapper." Noboru Foujioka painted some dejected cretins playing at cards, called it "American Spirit." And another member of the Jap-Manhattan school showed "evolution" as a tree with the body of an ape, burrowing worms for roots, a fruit of masks against a sky studded with glass diamonds. There was a wooden "bust" of Paul Whiteman by Guillermo Bolin which clearly demonstrated the jazz-priest's resemblance to a sea-lion. E. E. Cummings, poet, hung a picture of angels wrestling in a vacuum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Independent Artists | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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