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...Ales Hrdlicka, 69, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, believes that as a person gets older his skull gets bigger, because of increasing brain size-at least if the person is intellectually active. He got one of his first confirmations of this theory from British Archeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, 80. Last week he reported receiving word of increasing head size from 58 professors, lawyers, ministers, financiers and writers, including three women...
...workman who uses his muscles gets bigger ones. Does the head of an intellectual who uses his brain constantly get bigger & bigger during his life? The Smithsonian Institution's Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka thinks so, has asked the world's brainy people who find their heads going up in size to let him know about...
Last week the Smithsonian announced that it had received helpful testimony from Sir Flinders Petrie, the British archeologist who has done more than any other man alive to recreate the ancient civilization of Egypt. Sir Flinders, 84, describes himself as "quite sound and normal." At 20, he wore a size 6½ hat. At 30, size 7 to 7½. At 40, size 7¼. At 50, size 7½. After he was 60 no standard size would...
...Smithsonian Institution's able Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka pronounces himself Ah-leesh Hurd-leech...
...Abbot, a grey, kind-looking man with a conspicuous mustache, is the secretary (i.e., head) of the Smithsonian Institution, a distinguished authority on the sun, a longtime observer of variations in solar radiation. Dr. Abbot believes that on solar radiation depend temperature and precipitation on earth. He has found in the solar variations a number of periodicities which fit into a 23-year cycle and an even more important cycle of 46 years. Matching the cycles with actual weather records has provided, he declares, partial confirmation. Testifying last week on the Smithsonian's budget needs before a House appropriations...