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...time," says he, "I was in love with my pygmies." He decided that the Hottentots and Bushmen of South Africa are not true pygmies (they are too tall). He lived with the Aetas, pygmies of the Philippines, and the beetle-munching pygmies of North-East New Guinea's Schrader Mountains. Though for obvious reasons his courses have not been jammed with students ("It is not a job that promises much to students. It is not as engineering, no?"), he has fascinated many a future anthropologist with the pygmy's mysterious and often endearing ways. "They embraced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...studied little brown people in Central and South Africa, the Philippines and the Andes. This year, with the help of a grant from Philadelphia's American Philosophical Society, he went to the interior of Australian New Guinea, where a little-known race of Pygmies lives in the rugged Schrader Mountains. "Such a terrible country!" says Father Gusinde. "In Austria the Alps are a kind of avenue compared to those mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Beetle Eaters | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Neither team led by more than one goal at any point in the game. Center Bill Schrader scored the first goal of the game unassisted for Davenport at 2:03. Kennard and Karl Purnell scored the two Eliot goals in the first period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Tops Davenport In H-Y Hockey Match | 3/26/1955 | See Source »

...Netherlands' Anton Schrader, 29, the oldest in the crowd, had escaped from occupied Holland in a small boat, later parachuted back carrying OSS messages to the Dutch underground. After a year at Yale and the cross-country trip, he had been impressed by "the lack of class distinction, the materialistic thinking of most Americans, their absence of reserve, and the general lack of interest in church." One English girl who attended prep school at Bryn Mawr, Pa. thought that "the amount of food Americans waste is disgusting. The amount of clothes American girls have is tremendous-closets and drawers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Answers by Bus | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...ROGER SCHRADER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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