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...entire program, to suggest a reorganization which would settle the increasingly louder bickering. "Sammy the Rose," who believes in the efficiency of simpleness, began by calling on all defense chiefs. After a day of calls he would return to his quiet, comfortable White House room, knit his judicial brow, write down the problems to be solved...
...than historians, yet their opinions are blindest when they talk of arts & letters. They dismiss all photography except the journalistic and the strictly scientific; they hear no difference between hot jazz and commercial swing; they dismiss the important German and Russian films of the '20s as a high-brow rage. D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley are disposed of as writers who did too much reading; T. S. Eliot as an author of ultra-chichi -vers-de-société; W. H. Auden as a slick eclectic who "perhaps never wrote an original line." If there were...
...plush polo field, framed by giant trees, dogs are benched under gay-colored canvas tops, exhibited on little red runways bordered with bright flowers. By noon last week there were 40,000 spectators gathered around the 65 judging rings. For the curious there was a special treat: four little brow-furrowed Basenjis, English refugees, shown by Dr. A. R. B. Richmond of Toronto...
First inhabitants of Australia, Birdsell said, appear to have been a pigmy people, some 20,000 years ago. Later comers, according to the theory, were a primitive, hairy, white strain from south-eastern Asia, related to the hairy Ainu, of Japan; and a third, dark-skinned people, with thick brow ridges, bearing a relationship to certain peoples found in India, and Ceylon...
Birdsell and Tindale found that in the first generation Australian hybrids nearly all traces of native parentage vanish. Dark skin, flat noses and heavy brow ridges disappear, and the hybrids possess clear-cut white features...