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Also swimming for Eliot will be breaststrokers Fred Weymar and Claud Hooton, backstrokers Bill Roosevelt and Michael Hertzenzog, and freestylers Jay Burris, Richard Michler, Marshal Walter, and Glen Goldfarb...
Scion of a Boston family which had moved to Illinois, Moore naturally went to Harvard (class of '35), where he became president of Hasty Pudding and wrote the score for its 1934 show, Hades the Ladies. He had thought of making music his career, but anthropology under Earnest Hooton led him to medicine. It was not until his fourth year in Harvard Medical School that Moore decided to become a surgeon...
Another common belief that went by the wayside according to the records Hooton compiled was the myth of the "big Irishman with the jet black hair and snapping dark eyes." In the 10,000 people polled, the survey makers found just 33 persons fitting into this category, and they were all small and slender, like Italians...
...Hooton was excited about one find made in Ireland. "This is astounding," he said. "We found that the primitive looking Irishman, the man with the low big browline and the long arms, lives the longest. These are the men in the Keltic type class. They have deep blue eyes, long heads and the deepest chests...
...concluded Professor Hooton, "no matter which type they are--whether them stem from the Norsemen, Vikings, Danes or from the Stone Agers--they're Irishmen. And woe be to the man who goes there and calls them anything else...