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Anthropologist Aleś Hrdlička of the Smithsonian Institution tirelessly measures human skulls both quick and dead...
...differences. Eskimos have bigger heads than white men but are little if any brighter. The three largest skulls on record belong to an Aleutian Islander (capacity: 2,005 c.c.), an Algonquin "contemporary" of Pocahontas (2,200 c.c.), Russian Novelist Ivan Turgenev (2,030 c.c.). Recently Dr. Hrdlička examined the heads of 150 members of the National Academy of Sciences, which the Smithsonian calls "one of the most distinguished intellectual groups in the world." Last week the Smithsonian broadcast Hrdlička's conclusions...
...lucky thing for anthropology that Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced ah-leesh hurd-leech-ka), famed fossil man of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Moscow last week. A young Soviet archeologist named A. P. Okladnikoff announced the discovery of a fossilized Neanderthal skeleton on a high cliff in "Middle Asia." The bones were those of a child eight or nine years...
...Pennington and Marilyn Miller, Jerome Kern and Vincent Youmans, "When It's Moonlight in Ka-lu-a," "Rose-Marie, I Love You." In the season 1924-1925, to pick a sample year, there were 46 musical shows on Broadway...
Boys and girls of the Music Camp live in cabins on separate lakes, named by the founders Wah-be-ka-ness ("Water Lingers'') and Wah-be-ka-net-ta ("Water Lingers Again") but unanimously called Green Lake and Duck Lake. All wear uniforms of blue corduroy pants or knickers, blue shirts and socks. Uniformed likewise are the faculty (31 this summer), members of competent U. S. orchestras and music schools. Since 1931, NBC has broadcast concerts from the Music Camp's open-air Interlochen Bowl. New this year was a Radio Workshop, whose members wrote scripts...