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...hemispheres, saliva is often associated with conception. It is reported that among the Gypsies a woman who wishes to have a child will drink water into which her husband has spat. "Spit an' image" is, in all probability, to be traced back to a mystical notion of this sort. LESLIE A. WHITE Dept. of Anthropology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich...
...evolution process itself was attacked by reputable scientists. However, smoke from the old battle of Lamarckism v. Natural Selection has not yet finally cleared. Lamarckism is the theory that acquired characteristics can be inherited, that some profit from experience can be passed on to succeeding generations as a sort of protoplasmal memory. Natural Selection holds that accidental variations which happen to be favorable to the organism will be preserved by the survival of the fittest. Lamarckism is in general disrepute for the simple reason that evidence for it is scanty and dubious. The grosser physical aspects of it have long...
Nobody knows how many cinemagoers there are in the U. S. Guesses range from 28 to 80 million. Nobody knows whether the cinema is a good or a bad influence. But most people agree that it is an influence of some sort. To probe the delicate question of just what sort of influence the cinema is or might be was one of the ticklish tasks tackled last week by the annual Institute of Human Relations at Williamstown, Mass...
...20th Century-Fox lot in Hollywood one day last week half-a-dozen men were grouped in and about a queer-looking contraption-a sort of double-decked platform in the air, held together by invisible piano wires. The whole thing was hung by cables from enormous pulleys on the stage ceiling. The lower deck, besides having springs and pads like a huge mattress, was covered with a carpet. In fact, this super-gadget was a "magic carpet," reminiscent of the one Douglas Fairbanks rode 13 years ago in the Thief of Bagdad. Eddie Cantor had used this...
...took active charge in July of last year, replacing two retiring presidents, Trevor Arnett and Max Mason. For a quarter-century before that Fosdick had been active in Rockefeller philanthropy. War worker, peace advocate, internationalist, social science promoter, he was first if not foremost a lawyer-the sort of genial, persuasive, energetic man who takes naturally to public life without becoming a politician, the sort of man who might have become an inner councilor of the New Deal if his tastes and convictions had lain in that direction. Brother of the Riverside Church's Rector Harry Emerson Fosdick...