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Point Four Plan. In Coon Valley, Wis., where farmers have long been waiting for federal action on their application for a watershed flood control program, beavers moved in and built four dams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

Carleton S. Coon, Curator of Ethnology and Professor of Anthropology at the University if Pennsylvania and William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, joined General Medaris on a panel following Hartshorne's talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death Control Has Passed Birth Control, Geographer Stamp Warns Burr Crowd | 8/1/1957 | See Source »

Malnutrition, over-population, and racial differences are major factors in disunity, according to Coon's anthropological approach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death Control Has Passed Birth Control, Geographer Stamp Warns Burr Crowd | 8/1/1957 | See Source »

...really a matter of conformity. The roar of the twenties was also a sort of conformity; the goldfish swallowing, the ukuleles, 'coon coats, and straw hats were standard gear in every college town from Des Moines of Hanover. But it was a standard of abnormally, and that was what made it delightful. The personality, the character, the eccentric were warmly welcomed in every group, on every campus. Novelty was pursued with feverish intensity; if you could discover a new way of spending time, flagpole sitting for instance, your reputation was immediately established. And, while girls were flapping and boys were...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: The Anonymous Generation | 6/12/1957 | See Source »

...headline, and creates a surrealist zone in which Jack can never find his way, especially after the daily ration of martinis. To make matters worse, his wife and four children bulk awfully large just about the time Jack has begun trailing after lovely Star Irene Lovelle like a morose coon hound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Different Pajama Game | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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