Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position as director of the Australian Commonwealth Observatory, on Mount Stromlo near Canberra, will enable to return to his original field of interest. Optical research on the Southern Milky Way has been his special interest since Harlow Shapley brought him to Harvard...
...School, always a good source of material. This year it includes scrum half Alan Waddell, who was selected for the Scotch International Trial match before breaking his leg eighteen months ago, winger Derek Tweedley from England, Bob Huff, who was a forward on the Williams team last year, and Australian Dave Fewtrell, concussed in his first game for the Crimson last Saturday...
...teaches anthropology at Washington's Catholic University of America. Starting in 1934, he studied little brown people in Central and South Africa, the Philippines and the Andes. This year, with the help of a grant from Philadelphia's American Philosophical Society, he went to the interior of Australian New Guinea, where a little-known race of Pygmies lives in the rugged Schrader Mountains. "Such a terrible country!" says Father Gusinde. "In Austria the Alps are a kind of avenue compared to those mountains...
...Gallipoli became a British synonym for "gallantry and folly" is the burden of the latest book by Alan Moorehead, Australian World War II war correspondent (North Africa, Europe). His account of this last great battle for Constantinople, when Western man last fought for "glory" and "immortality," gleams like a ribbon on khaki...
Married. Ken Rosewall, 21, freckled Australian tennis prodigy who startled tennis handicappers in 1952 by upsetting U.S. Davis Cup Captain Vic Seixas in the U.S. Nationals, last month won the U.S. championship; and Wilma Mclver, 22, movie theater receptionist; in Brisbane...