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As the "discoverer" of evolution, Darwin, surprisingly enough, lacked Huxley's brilliance and his ability to reason quickly. Yet Darvin's own slowness and tenacity were qualities admirably suited to the task of gradually, almost unconsciously, developing an idea. Huxley's more piercing intellect moved from subject to subject, a...
Died. The Rev. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., 74, world-renowned, French-born paleontologist, co-discoverer (in 1924) of the Peking man, the first actual remains of paleolithic man found in Asia; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Father Teilhard regarded the Peking man as an important link between the...
Died. Sir Edward Mellanby, 70, British authority on nutrition, onetime (1933-49) secretary of Britain's Medical Research Council, discoverer (in 1918) of Vitamin D; of coronary thrombosis; in London. In 1946 Sir Edward proved that Agene, the bleaching and aging agent once used in 80% of U.S. white...
Died. Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Co lette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvenel Goudeket (Colette), 81, called by Poet Paul Claudel "the greatest living writer in France" (Cheri, Gigi); of a heart ailment; in Paris. At 20, Colette married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a potboiling hack who won fame by publishing under his own...
Bitter Feud. While VIPs were admiring the new find, a bitter feud broke out between Dr. Ghoneim and Kamal el Mallakh, discoverer of Cheops' soul ship. Cried El Mallakh, who is officially an architect: "The archeologists have opened a second front against me."