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Died. Joseph Hergesheimer. 74, prolific bestselling historical novelist from 1914 through the early '30s (Java Head, Balisand, The Three Black Pennys); in Sea Isle City, N.J. A slow but diligent craftsman, he wrote for 14 years before he published his first novel, The Lay Anthony, and in his prime turned out a book a year, plus scores of popular short stories for the Satevepost. No favorite of highbrows, he won a wide popular following and critical respect with his detailed historical backgrounds (e.g., the Clipper Ship era, the Civil War) and nostalgic, unpretentious style...
...miles to London. Next, another plane and another attendant took them 3,000 miles to New York's Idlewild Airport and trucks carried them 700 miles to Okatie Farms in South Carolina. There the rhesus monkeys from India were caged with other hordes of "Java" (Cynomolgus) monkeys from the Philippines, to be used as ammunition in a great battle now being fought by medical science. The enemy: polio...
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...line for the 300-odd delegates. In Asia, he said, "colonialism is a bigger issue then Communism-and white is the color of colonialism." Almost 99% of U.S. Protestant missionaries now serving overseas, said Dr. Thomas, are white men and women. "I asked the church leaders of mid-Java if they would prefer Negro or white workers, and their decision was unanimously against our present practice of sending almost exclusively white missionaries...
...China, for instance, are "known" only through large, humanlike teeth, most of them found in native apothecary shops. Many anthropologists deny that such giants ever existed. Other early humans are heavily documented by multiple finds of their bones. Neanderthal man, discovered in 1857, is as real as the Romans. Java man (1891), Peking man (1928) and many of the types recently found in Africa are too well-proved to be the creations of wishful' theorists or of jokers...