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Victory's Pattern. The Russians struck from two points at once. One column drove south from the city. Another pushed out from the tiny beachhead at Oranienbaum, 25 miles from Leningrad. Before both columns a broom of TNT swept a clear path...
Scottish-born, 76-year-old Dr. Broom (TIME, Jan. 16, 1939) is interested in early man, about whom he has written six books and close to 400 articles. The bones he found at the Kromdraai farm he attributes to higher primates which lived some 500,000 years ago. He sees in them "interesting affinities to man." Broom thinks the Kromdraai ape man may be a survivor of forms out of which man sprang a million years ago. The new anklebone, small compared with the skull, leads Broom to believe that Kromdraai's large brain would not have been required...
...Broom is Keeper of Vertebrate Paleontology & Anthropology in Pretoria's big Transvaal Museum. When the University of Pretoria (whose Boer-descended students are anti-Smuts and anti-British) set up a new medical faculty, it asked Broom to lecture on anatomy, waived the fact that he speaks no Afrikaans. He began-but then his lecturing in English was denounced by an Afrikaans-minded newspaper, the Johannesburg Transvaler. Broom thereupon addressed his medical students thus...
Next day pawky Robert Broom resigned, went back to studying animals which used their brains partly for thinking...
...green flatlands, past Ford Island and the gaunt wreckage of the Oklahoma and warps into a slip at the Submarine Base. On her conning tower is painted the score of her cruise: a column of rising suns. A Navy band tootles a greeting. Lashed to her periscope is a broom, symbol of a clean sweep in enemy waters...