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WHITE'S CHILDHOOD seems to have been happy. He was born in 1899, "in the fashionable section of Mounte Vemon. New York," to loving and prosperous parents Elwyn Brooks White was the sixth and youngest child of his family. His father taught him" to respect the responsibilities of the head of a family as well as the rights of all its members to privacy, independence, and self-realization.... But much more important, during his most impressionable years, he learned from his father to be an optimist, and to believe in his luck." From his mother, White seems to have received...
...just this response that Biographer Scott Elledge, an English professor at Cornell, tries to deflect. The life of Author E.B. White, 84, Elledge keeps insisting, has been harder than it looks, from birth onward: "Elwyn was not a weakling or a sickly child, but he was not robust . . . his hay fever was so severe that his father took him (with the rest of the family) to Maine for the month of August in the hope of escaping the pollen that made him miserable." After enduring these hard knocks, this youngest of six children of well-to-do parents went...
...they were not very formidable-males weighed no more than 5½ kg (12 lbs.), females about 80% of that-they could take on a ferocious appearance. Whenever the males competed with one another for females or were threatened, they would bare their fanglike canines. Comments Duke University Paleontologist Elwyn Simons: "A nasty little thing...
...knuckle-walking ape called Dryopithecus, a creature that lived some 20 million years ago and is generally believed to have given rise to both apes and man. This ape's own ancestors seem likely to have lived in Africa as well. As Exhibit A, Duke University Anthropologist Elwyn Simons offered fossils, found near Cairo, of a tree-dwelling primate 30 million years old; Simons christened the creature Aegyptopithecus. Last week, however, a team of Burmese and American scientists created a stir in anthropological circles when they announced that they had found primate fossils in Burma that...
While these ancient footprints shed fresh light on our nearer ancestors, Anthropologist Elwyn Simons, director of Duke University's primate center, revealed new findings on more distant kin. Most scientists agree that both man and ape descended from a common ancestor, a beast called Dryopithecus (meaning tree ape), which appeared in Africa some 20 million years ago. But who, or what, preceded it? As far back as 1963, Simons, then at Yale, began uncovering in the wind-scoured Fayum desert region, southwest of Cairo, bones of a likely candidate: a small, fox-sized, tree-inhabiting primate, which he dubbed Aegyptopithecus...