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...curious phenomenon which Uncle Earnest pointed out was the differences of attitude among anthropologists according to nationality. "While there is, of course, no unanimity of opinion as to man's origin among the German students, it is worthy of note that the prevalent and perhaps predominant sentiment of Ger man anthropologists is and has been for a number of decades decidedly pro-ape. . . . If the Germans are on the side of the apes, the English have arrayed themselves almost solidly on the side of the angels. Thus the opinion of Sir Arthur Keith and Le Gros Clark separates...
Radio, etc The high cost of campaigning this year is due in part simply to big ger and better expenditures on the same old things for which money has been spent for years. Something new in big campaign costs is radio. Such a minor party as the Communists will have a total broadcasting bill of $35,000 with National Broadcasting alone. The same firm announced that the Republican National Committee had up to last week spent $265,000 for use of its networks, and the Democratic National Committee -which had the advantage ear lier in the campaign of "free...
...short, muscular, and his blue eyes protruded slightly. His blue-eyed German professors of war found him so brilliant that they called him "The Little Moltke," and he conceived for Ger many a passionate admiration...
...make love are to live or die by doing so. Although its handling of secret service technique will suffer by comparison with more carefully authenticated spy stories, notably MGM's Rendezvous, it contains two memorable scenes: 1) a brilliant reproduction of the firing of one of the famed Ger man long-range siege guns trained on Paris, followed by its destruction by secret serv ice sabotage; 2) the examination in a bag gage car of a coffin in which the fleeing Alan is supposed to have hidden...
...architecture in Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Rome, finally set up shop in Paris just before the War. Commissions being slow, he turned to painting and writing essays for art magazines. In 1921 he adopted his mother's family name, Le Corbusier, but still signs Jeanneret to the Léger-like abstractions he paints in his spare time and which he has never tried to sell. Not until after the Arts Decoratifs Exposition of 1925 did he gain an international reputation as a builder. By that time many a young architect was working on the problem of stripping the petticoat...