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Married. George Pember Darwin, 36, researcher for a London electronics company, great-grandson of Evolutionist Charles Darwin; and Angela Huxley, 24, niece of the late Author Aldous and great-granddaughter of Biologist Thomas Huxley, foremost champion of Darwin's The Origin of Species; in an Anglican ceremony; in London...
...human infant enters the world in a peculiarly helpless and undeveloped condition. Without the willingness of loving adults to spend years in nursing the helpless offspring they have produced, man would long since have vanished from the earth." Watching the stars, he brings the trained mind of the evolutionist to bear on the possibility of the existence of life on other planets, but explains his conclusion with his own special brand of eloquence: "Life, even cellular life, may exist out yonder in the dark. But high or low in nature, it will not wear the shape of man. That shape...
...jungle struggle, where the weaker will be gobbled up like an anchovy canape by the man with the firmer grip on the conversation and the Martini glass. In his scholarly The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, or the Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948), Evolutionist Potter brought this insight to bear on sport; in Some Notes on Lifemanship, which might well be subtitled The Art of Licking the Other Fellow Without...
...always, Shaw enjoyed himself. He trotted out a string of British and Irish influencers whom most of the critics had never heard of or never deigned to bother with. But high up on Shaw's eccentric list was eccentric Samuel Butler (1835-1902), novelist and creative evolutionist. "It drives one almost to despair," snapped Shaw, "when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression that when I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free, and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share...
...kind of assignment he relishes: a special request for a quiverful of Shavian shafts. The Communist Daily Worker asked him to comment on the indictment of the twelve American Communist leaders (TIME, Aug. 2). G.B.S., who has claimed to be an atheist, an anti-Darwinian (see BOOKS), a "creative evolutionist" and a vegetarian, "refrained from comment" in 212 words. Sample: "The founder of Christianity was a Communist with eleven faithful apostles, chief of whom* struck a man and his wife dead for keeping back their money from a common pool instead of sharing it. But American legislators, ostensibly Christians...