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Friday at dawn, lights were still burning in the Stock Exchange where a skeleton summer clerical staff was compiling the transactions of the biggest trading day (1,306,690 shares) since October, 1911. The New York Times average of 50 stocks, standing at $64.69 on Monday, had dropped 10% to $57.77 by Thursday. European holders of U. S. stocks were jettisoning their financial cargoes and the panic had spread to U. S. investors. By 9 a. m., brokers were swamped by a tidal wave of selling orders...
...Drum found his First Army (one of the four field armies into which the Regular Army and National Guard are divided) short of combat strength by 246,000 men, 3,063 machine guns, 348 howitzers, 180 field guns. What the U. S. needs, said he, is not its traditional, skeleton Army, to be expanded after war is declared, but "the creation in peacetime of a well-trained, adequately equipped and well-organized fighting force...
...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...
...exact location was not disclosed, but central Asia is thousands of miles farther east than any Neanderthal remains hitherto discovered. Since Soviet science is more notable for enthusiasm than for scholarly caution, some skeptics might have wondered whether the skeleton was really a Neanderthal child or just the luckless progeny of some more recent Mongol wanderer. Dr. Hrdlicka, however, pronounced it a genuine Neanderthal specimen, left no doubt that was one of the most precious childr in anthropology's bare nursery. Dr. Hrdlicka knows...
...detail was a one room building of local sandstone, dated 1784-the oldest schoolhouse still standing in Newark. In the airy Museum itself were: 1) a full-scale reconstruction of a Tibetan lamasery altar; 2) fine lace and silverware; 3) "The Human Body & Its Care," an exhibit featuring a skeleton; 4) American "primitive'' paintings; 5) 200 electrically driven, slow-motion models showing all the physical principles used "in the art and science of mechanics'"; 6) a retrospective show of paintings by burly, grey-haired Joseph Stella, one of the first and most gifted "modern" U. S. artists...