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Fracas began when Ambassador Suvich was quoted in an interview as saying that modern Italy is a "high speed democracy." As first speaker on the Coliseum program, Editor Harrison impolitely undertook to correct him. Said he: "For the past 16 years Mussolini has operated a supreme dictatorship with a cabinet of stooges and a puppet king. If that is Democracy, we want none...
Since many of the women raped were killed and buried indiscriminately with Chinese civilians, police and soldiers dispatched by the Japanese execution squads, there are no reliable statistics, but last week every white authority agreed that modern history does not afford another instance of such wholesale rape...
...among last season's material collected from the Choukoutien caves. One piece was twelve inches long, the other two inches. There were several human features, including 1) general shape; 2) a groove near the knee end. On the other hand the Sinanthropus thighbones differed from those of modern humans in 1) greater stoutness; 2) faint curvature; 3) decreasing thickness toward the knee end. In these same features it differed also from the Java creature's thighbone. On this basis Dr. Weidenreich assumes the Peking man's thighbones to be the more primitive. He concludes that the Java...
...Admission to the human family-the family of hominidae-does not include a label as Homo sapiens, the species in which all modern men are grouped. Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus not only belong to different species but to different genera. Such later types as the Neanderthal and Heidelberg men belong to the same genus as modern man but to different species. First indubitable representatives of Homo sapiens were the tall, artistic Cromagnons who flourished in Europe some 25,000 years ago, after the Neanderthalers had disappeared...
Argus was a mythological monster who never missed a trick, for some of his 100 eyes were always ajar. Considering that such a creature might well have been the pure prototype of the modern international journalist, Vladimir Poliakoff took "Argus" as a pen name in 1924, when he wrote an article for the British Fortnightly Review. By a mistake the printer made it "Augur." The accidental pseudonym served just as well for Journalist Poliakoff's political forecasts, and Augur it has remained. In 14 years that by-line has come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring...