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Wrestling, according to Coach Pat Johnson, is the oldest recognized sport in the world. Since he's grapple mentor for the Harvard grant-and-groaners, one might expect this to be a slightly prejudiced statement, but when the slender Crimson coach made the remark, he added that he had taken a couple of anthropology courses which ought to be good enough authority...
This speculation is contained in a slender, thoughtfully written book full of charts and tables, published this week and called The Natural History of Population* Author Raymond Pearl, an eminent biologist of Johns Hopkins University, has been much in the news lately because Harold LeClair Ickes, an eminent Washington politician, lighted on one of Pearl's researches in another field in an attempt to show that U. S. newspapers avoid certain types of news. Dr. Pearl had concluded that tobacco impairs a smoker's chances for long life; umbrageous Secretary Ickes felt that this finding was insufficiently reported...
...both were upped to the newly created title of manager. Both gained prestige when Morgan gave up underwriting and concentrated on commercial banking in 1934. And so when deaths and resignations reduced the firm from 20 to twelve partners in six years, it was natural to reward tall, slender, shy Raymond Atkin and tall, slender, shy William Mitchell. Both...
...Slender, dark, bustling Isabel Bishop, 36, has her studio at Broadway and 17th Street, hard by Union Square. Such paintings as Office Girls begin with a fast sketch done on the street, followed by a carefully composed etching. Models for her final, slowly and delicately built paintings are always girls found in the neighborhood, never professionals. The thing she feels about them and tries to communicate in her painting, she says, is their "mobility in life." the very fact that they do not belong irrevocably to a certain class, that anything may happen to them...
...third George Fisher Baker grew up inconspicuously as many a rich boy does. From St. Paul's School he went to Harvard, where he roomed in dowdy Kirkland House, concentrated in government, joined Hasty Pudding and Owl. No college athlete, slender George Baker made news in 1936 when he caught a 622-lb. black marlin off Panama. He made news again last summer with his marriage to Frances Drexel Munn, Philadelphia descendant of Astors and Biddies...