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Astronomers were amused at ex-Dentist Smith's valuation of this quite ordinary specimen, pointed out that a meteorite containing iridium and diamonds had sold for $3 a pound. But Dr. Smith was as adamant as his merchandise, threatened to have the meteorite cut up into bits to be polished, dated, sold as souvenirs. Said he: "There probably are lots of people who would like to have a piece done up like that...
...masters. "Are we pretending to educate these people for self-government?" he asks; answers, "They governed themselves before we went there." From the native's point of view he sums up the European achievements as roads he "does not care twopence about," schools which produce "a very disgruntled specimen," missions so frail "that, ten years after the departure of the last missionary, there would be no Christianity left," hospitals whose staffs need "all their time to counteract the tendency of the population to decrease under the white man's rule...
...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...
...bankers are a commodity of which the U. S. has never had an adequate supply. Most costly evidence of the fact is the $1,175,000,000 of defaulted bonds outstanding which foreigners (Germany: 26.4%) owe U. S. investors. This week, however, the U. S. acquired a very competent specimen of the breed-a present from Adolf Hitler. He is Otto Jeidels (pronounced Yi-dels), a tall handsome man with a twinkle in his eye, who habitually talks so fast that no one else can get in a word. Before teller purged German banking he was only one size smaller...
...something of a thrill. In addition, it was enough to give them an acute inferiority complex enough to convince them that they went out with clay pipes instead of silver spoons. Most Harvard graduates, infers Mr. Tunis, must have the fate of Broadway's current Harvard man-the spectacular specimen in "The Priterose Path...