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...Chapman Andrews, famed Gobi Desert explorer, quit as director of the American Museum of Natural History, explaining that since the museum now needs new financing more than dinosaur eggs, "the problems confronting the institution . . . are not those for which I am particularly fitted. . . ." Senator Alben William Berkley made a speech in Memphis, fainted afterward of "fatigue and excitement." W. C. Fields went on the wagon again, predicted no good would come...
Died. Dr. Walter Granger, 68, explorer and curator of fossil mammals for the American Museum of Natural History; in Lusk, Wyo. He explored the Gobi Desert with Roy Chapman Andrews, helped establish the age of Peking Man at about 500,000 years...
...that is performing this heroic transformation is Kukan's theme. These are people that most U.S. cinemaddicts have never seen or known. They are shy, handsome, aboriginal Miaos from the mountains of Kweichow; turbaned Mohammedans from Lanchow, heart of China's northwest frontier; greasy nomads from The Gobi; Lamas from Tibet; Hans; Manchus...
...Chapman Andrews is best known as the man who discovered fossil dinosaur eggs in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Before that, no one knew whether dinosaurs laid eggs or bore their young alive. Andrews has done a great deal of other scientific junketing, slaking an insatiable curiosity which he has had ever since he was a Wisconsin boy. Several times he has been on death's brink-once a black boy in Borneo yanked him out of range of a huge python which was about to drop on the explorer from a tree...
...Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...