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...enough time to express impressions and opinions of Harvard. The next typical student was John Marshall '57, who showed films which he took while he was in Africa on an anthropologial expedition. The pictures were fascinating, if not Harvardian, and they were also useful because, as Marshall explained, "The bushmen are dying...
...Time for Fear (Harper; $3.50), he reports that he found what he was looking for. Among Bushmen and Basutos, Hottentots and Masai, from 95% to 98% go through childbirth like his own prize patients, with no untoward pain. Notable exceptions are women who have committed adultery: they often have long and difficult labor. Dr. Dick Read was amazed to learn of women who had been in painful labor for two or three days but who, when persuaded to confess their adultery, suddenly relaxed and "released the baby from the birth canal in a few minutes with no further trouble." These...
...managers in Stevenson's 1952 campaign. When a reporter commented that this chain of command showed that Stevenson had decided to use professional politicians this time instead of "socalled bush-league advisers," the candidate waved in the direction of Mitchell and Wyatt and cracked: "Will you bushmen all stand up, please...
...Marshall Party made survey trips to the Bushman area for two years before embarking on a full-scale study. Then, in June, 1952, the expedition returned to Africa with plans to film an entire year in the life of the tribe. "The only previous contact with Bushmen had been around police posts," Marshall explains. "Most of the Bushmen we worked with had never even seen white people before." Even the elementary problem of communication proved a vexing one, for the expedition had extreme difficulty in obtaining native interpreters who were familiar with the Bushman tongue...
...Bushmen were friendly and hospitable hosts for fourteen months. "We never even say a quarrel among them during the whole time we were there." Marshall recalls. "At the end they were very sorry to see us leave and we were sorry to go." Besides good-will, the expedition brought back 120 pounds of written notes and tens of thousands of photographs of the Bushman in his native habitat...