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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Julius Lips started work on The Savage Hits Back* in 1929 in Cologne, where he was the curator-in-chief of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum. After studying savages for years it occurred to him that the savages were also capable of studying him, whereupon he set out to collect all the native representations of white men he could find. By 1933 he was ready to put his notes together. In that year, however, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and preoccupation with other cultures than the "Aryan" became dangerous. Forced to resign, Professor Lips was finally driven...
...much more standardized humorist. Wolcott Gibbs is so self-depreciating that when he was managing editor of The New Yorker he kept his own copy out of the issue on every opportunity. For once an author's apologetic foreword ("How I ever came to write and collect the pieces in this book must remain an impressive mystery. Why the publisher is printing them is something he will have to explain to his God") is to be believed. Best pieces in his book, Bed of Neuroses, are the parodies. Best parodies: "Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce," "Death in the Rumble Seat...
...rules when he went game hunting in Africa in 1932. At Cambridge he had decided it was necessary for anthropologists to know more about the neglected, obscure little animals whose places in evolution were uncertain and whose capture would have scientific rather than sporting importance. To help him collect them, he again broke the rules by selecting men who were not the usual great athletes and huntsmen, but barflies whose long hours in smoky night clubs, reasoned Zoologist Sanderson, had endowed them with the endurance required for life on the Dark Continent...
...less strenuous but equally efficient job of shuttling hundreds of students laundry cases weekly between Cambridge and home towns for students who wish to have efficient laundry service to their homes and back to college dormitories at a very small cost. These shipments may be sent either collect or prepaid...
...July 19, Congressman W. D. McFarlane, in a speech replete with facts . . . said that upon receiving your experimental license . . . you immediately raised the price of your radio advertising time some 50% and continued to collect handsome commercial profits on the basis of experimentation for these 39 months, a practice which you know is definitely prohibited by the rules of the Commission...