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Foresighted Canada's new War Assets Corp. (TIME, Dec. 13) last week told what it intends to do. Under no illusions about the vastness of the job, W.A.C.'s new president, sensible, Scottish-born Steelmaker John Ballantyne Carswell, explained...
...Scottish-born, 76-year-old Dr. Broom (TIME, Jan. 16, 1939) is interested in early man, about whom he has written six books and close to 400 articles. The bones he found at the Kromdraai farm he attributes to higher primates which lived some 500,000 years ago. He sees in them "interesting affinities to man." Broom thinks the Kromdraai ape man may be a survivor of forms out of which man sprang a million years ago. The new anklebone, small compared with the skull, leads Broom to believe that Kromdraai's large brain would not have been required...
...Scottish-born, 40-year-old Alexander B. Austin began his dispatch one day last week to the London Daily Herald. He filed it, climbed into a jeep with three other British correspondents: stocky, thirtyish William J. Munday of the London News Chronicle; mild-mannered, 38-year-old Stewart Sale of Reuters; Basil Gingell of the British Exchange Telegraph agency...
...Days to Christmas. In Saskatoon, Sask., Scottish-born William Kinnear got his 1943 Christmas cards in the mail just ahead of the penny boost in postal rates...
...Scottish-born Dr. John A. Mackay (rhymes with reply), president of Princeton Theological Seminary, is usually a mild man. But last week his dander was up. A longtime missionary in Mexico, Peru and Uruguay, he well knew that the republics south of the Rio Grande still admit Protestant missionaries, educators and doctors, despite some wartime difficulties. Yet last month the U.S. Catholic hierarchy declared that these missions are "a disturbing factor in our international relations" and are "offensive to the dignity of our Southern brothers, their culture and their religion." Last fortnight the Catholic Digest made further charges (TIME...