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Modern man, the only living species of a once numerous human family, is as definitely pigeonholed in the animal world by taxonomists (biological classifiers) as is Sylvilagus floridanus, the cottontail rabbit. The gun-shooting, crystal-gazing, ballot-casting species-called Homo sapiens by taxonomic courtesy-belongs to the genus homo, the family of Hominidae, the order of primates, the class of mammals, the subphylum of vertebrates, the phylum of Chordata, and to the animal kingdom...
Died. Elzie Crisler Segar, 43, comic-strip artist who created "Popeye the Sailor"; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. Six hundred trademarked articles, a cinema cartoon and a radio program were named after Popeye. Because spinach was his only food its sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some...
Germany's outstanding pagan philosopher is Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, erudite and devious "ideologist" to Adolf Hitler. Last week a speech which he recently made in private to the Reich Culture Chamber was published in London. It showed with crystal clarity that not only German Jews but Protestants and Roman Catholics have reason to fear Alfred Rosenberg. Excerpts...
Such was the scene that greeted U. S. sightseers who went for an auto ride one day last week to the top of Pikes Peak. There, along the highway, from Crystal Creek to the summit (12½ miles), 15 sturdy runners plodded along in a unique contest called the Vertical Mile Marathon, sponsored by the Colorado Springs Junior Chamber of Commerce. At the snow-banked summit (14,108 ft. above sea level and exactly one mile higher than the starting point), a sunburned crowd of 300 watched all but five of the runners finish...
...Over the block passed Flemish, early German and French paintings, English mezzotints, sketches and water colors by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard; Gothic, Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries; Louis XIV carpets, Louis XV gueridons, Louis XVI marquetry and console tables; della Robbia terra cottas, Sevres porcelain, Limoges enamels, Ispahan rugs, Italian crystal and marbles, bronzes, Oriental rugs, precious saltcellars, marriage coffers, inkstands, candlesticks...