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Back at East Base, Navy Pilot Ashley Snow fitted a damaged transport plane with skis and a new propeller, found a landing place on a high plateau near the Bear. Books, papers, personal belongings, scientific instruments were left behind; the men took out only what they could carry in their pockets. The dogs had to be killed. The loaded plane could not clear the peaks; Pilot Snow flew it through passes in the range. Two trips were made in fog. Then the Bear cut its way through...
...Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu, of Hahnemann Medical College, who looks like Harold Lloyd and has nuisance value among anthropologists because of his irritating lectures, was in fine, irritating fettle. He shocked his colleagues by declaring the whole concept of race to be "utterly erroneous and meaningless." He declared that early naturalists like Linnaeus and Buffon first tried to squeeze mankind into races according to complexion and other superficial traits, but anthropologists must now open their minds to the later discovery of genetic laws: Then the many differences among human groups will appear only as mutations within a single species. "Race...
...another point Ashley-Montagu and Hrdlicka presented divergent evidence to reach an important agreement: Hrdlicka declared the evidence from old bones and pots is now conclusive that the long-disputed theory that the American Indians came from Asia via Bering Strait is indeed correct. Ashley-Montagu added evidence of a new sort: analysis of blood types...
...ghastly Koufman, and you're Ashley pale," Huey said...
Jimmy Durante's methodical performance, on the other hand, lacks the zest and originality of his usual ad-lib burlesque. Ilka Chase, also prominent in the comedy sequences, carries off one of the show's funniest scenes with Durante and Bolger in "Rhett, Scarlett, and Ashley." Typical crack out of the mouth of academy award winner, "Scarlett O'Leigh" is: "Mr. Selznick made me--he made me over night...