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...greying adman who had dropped everything at Curtis' unborn, LIFElike "Magazine X" to go to Holiday's rescue (TIME, July 8). One was British-born Art Editor James Yates, who had gone to "X" after restyling the Satevepost during the war. The third was wise and wiry Ik (pronounced Ike) Shuman, who left a top job at the New Yorker four years ago to work first as "magazine consultant" to Marshall Field, then for Esquire's Dave Smart...
Last week Grandfather Underwood's son recalled his Korean childhood. Queen Min used to dandle him on her royal knee. When the palace burned down the royal family moved next door to the Underwoods. When King Ik Song feared assassination, he sent for Grandfather Underwood and two other missionaries. They sat up all night guarding His Majesty with loaded revolvers...
...safe" assumption that primitive man prattled like a child while at work and play. Observing his own children and grandchildren, Thorndike noted that these babblings sometimes repeated themselves in connection with the same act or object, at first by chance, then deliberately. Thus a primitive man may have babbled "ik" as he poked with a stick or "kuz" as he dug up a clam, then repeated the sound when he poked or dug again...
Eventually, Thorndike believes, the man attached the sound "ik" to stick, in a lifetime developed in this way a private language of perhaps 20 to 25 words. Making himself understood was harder, but his fellows, hearing him cry "Kuz!" whenever he found a clam, finally caught...
...Wood, he builds his own boats, works on them with a staff of six mechanics with whom he shared quarters in Detroit last week. At 14. Hubert Scott-Paine ran away to sea. Before the War, : his early twenties, he became interested in airplanes, flew so recklessly that IK was jailed for "suicidal intent." Stranded in the South of France, he joined a circus, got 20 francs a bout for boxing with anyone who wanted to earn ?3 by staying three rounds. An Englishman who did it made friends with Scott-Paine, took him back to England, started...