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...become director emeritus. Dr. Gasser was fascinated by the scientific prima donnas of the Institute from whom he was expected to produce harmony. And Dr. Gasser was flabbergasted by the newspapermen and one hardbitten, red-headed woman who breathed cigaret smoke at him. Mr. Rockefeller, who showed no discomfort from the smoke, had to help Dr. Gasser out with the interview...
...Back to Chicago last week from a six-month stay in the Panama Canal Zone went skeptical, inquisitive Professor Alfred Edwards Emerson, University of Chicago zoologist, scornfully denying that he and his family had suffered tropical discomfort. Predictions of insecticide manufacturers that tropical termites will direfully invade the U. S. are absurd, said he, because 1) most of the U. S. is too cold, and 2) fossil termites 30,000,000 years old show close kinship to species now living, so that if these oldtimers could have invaded the U. S., they would have done so long...
...some extraordinary native dancing, including the performance of adagio dancers who danced with children and knives, throwing knives that seemed to pass through the children in midair. But most of Africa Dances is devoted to realistic appraisals of native culture, political and economic conditions, colonial administration, the heat and discomfort of the country. Among the whites Geoffrey Gorer encountered lack of ambition, futility, occasional brutality; among the blacks, resignation, degeneration. He found French colonial methods less successful than the English, primarily because the English teach the natives to read, and make colonial administration a career while the French look upon...
Reason for the comparative discomfort of bachelor hall was that the fixtures in the huge, antiquated kitchen in the basement were being removed to make way for modern electric equipment. A second operation even closer to the Roosevelt heart: an ancient "grotto:' used as a cow barn by Andrew Jackson was being freshened up to serve as a storehouse for rare old hams and fine cheeses relished by the Squire of Hyde Park...
Stanford's Dr. Terman had found that his typical divorced woman was inclined to be less mercenary than happily or unhappily married women. Mr. Anthony likewise found that his jailing wives were unmercenary, at least in the sense that they would rather discomfort their husbands than get money from them. When he pointed out to the women who called on him that no money would be forthcoming so long as the husband was in jail, the caller almost invariably replied: "That's all right; I'll get along without his money...