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Lieut. General Mark Clark's pants-the ones he lost in the water on his melodramatic sneak-trip to North Africa (TIME, Nov. 23, 1942)-are going to the Smithsonian Institution. The General's wife, who will present them, reported in Pittsburgh that they had been rescued from an African beach and ultimately returned to the General, who discovered they had shrunk and sent them home...
...must to all men, death came last week to 74-year-old, white-maned Aleš Hrdlička (pronounced Alesh Hur-dlich-ka), second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate...
...Foundation members include such famed scholars as Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Yale's Geographer Ellsworth Huntington, Columbia's Economist Wesley Clair Mitchell, the Smithsonian Institution's Secretary Charles Greeley Abbott...
...vast, quiet, faintly musty, gewgaw-cluttered chambers of the antique, red brick Smithsonian Institution, history is put to rest-there goes good news when it dies. But last week the Institution's "new" secretary (he has been there only 14 years and is only 70), Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, made live news. The gaunt, grave, full-mustached museum man had had on his mind the matter of Samuel P. Langley v. the Wright Brothers. The world regards Wilbur and Orville Wright as the country's true airplane pioneers, but Langley, onetime Smithsonian secretary, has been the Institution...
...Said the Smithsonian: Ainu women, properly dressed, could stroll unnoticed along any U.S. Main Street. Ainu men are hairy and large-headed, with faces strikingly like those of Leo Tolstoy, Alfred Tennyson, or Orson Welles. The almost beardless Japanese point to the Ainus' hirsuteness as evidence of subhuman status...