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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Genesis and many a folk tale notwithstanding, most anthropologists have pictured primitive man as a little fellow somewhere between an ape and a monkey in size. But last week evidence was offered to prove Genesis correct. A Java geologist had dug up bones of prehistoric men bigger than the largest known apes...
...Ritchie, R.N., relative to his appointment as press secretary to Brit ain's royal family. You state that "He is an experienced and popular writer (as 'Bartimeus' he is the author, etc - )." In the preface to Steady as You Go by "Bartimeus" I note that his correct name is given as Capatin L. da Costa Ricci, C.V.O., R.N. Who is right? - TIME, or the writer of the preface-William McFee. Engineer-Lieutenant, R.N.R...
...Germans who occupied this peninsula were not ruthless; they were extremely well behaved. The townspeople say that the Germans ate and drank too noisily, but their treatment of the French was a little more than correct. Along the coast they fraternized with the local people with some success and at least two French wives or mistresses became snipers-although most of the women snipers were Germans (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Some of the conscripted labor was French but much more was German, Italian and Russian. In one town, Bayeux, the German commandant managed to avoid sending the full quota of young...
...Mort aux Boches! They were more than eager to talk to the Americans. They said the Americans would be welcomed generally by the French patriots. The Germans, they said, had been very correct in their social relations with the French, but had eaten the cream of the crop and had compelled the Frenchmen to work on beach fortifications, and the French women to do their laundry, for which they paid...
Sirs: I believe your criticism of Frank Kluck-hohn's close-up of Major Richard Ira Bong (TiME, May 1) was unjustified. If the facts given were correct, and you did not seem to question them, I see no reason why a reporter should refer to Bong in "warm, sympathetic" tones...