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Antiquity of Man. No sane anthropologist asserts that man descended from an ape or monkey. The family tree of primates charted by Sir Arthur Keith shows New World monkeys branching off a common stem in the Eocene Age (2,000,000 years ago), Old World monkeys diverging later in the same period. In the Oligocene Age (1,200,000 years ago), the great upright primates reached a fork. One branch ends up with the gorillas, orangs and chimpanzees of today. The other continues steadily toward Homo sapiens...
...nation first heard the radio blackface comic strip team of Amos and Andy. Amos (Freeman F. Gosden), the patient and long-suffering one, was discovered plaintively complaining about having to do all the work on their Georgia farm while dumb, blustering Andy (Charles J. Correll) loafed under a shade tree. Amos and Andy soon went north to Chicago to find work...
...family cabin plane were his wife, his daughters Marjorie, 16. Dorothy, 9. Over Lexington, Ky., Father Mokher lost his bearings, decided to ask directions. Circling low over a country store, he slowed his motor, shouted to the proprietor. To hear better he circled lower, grazed a tree, struck some telephone wires, crashed. Of the Mokhers only Dorothy survived...
...make it up some day because the law requires him to produce 52 issues a year. Sometimes he suddenly runs out of newsprint, telephones the home office for more, receives a rebuke for telephoning instead of writing. In one instance a Woodyard local editor was injured by a falling tree. The former owner of the sheet stepped in. published several issues before the home management knew anything about it. Average editor-manager's pay: $25 a week plus bonuses...
Over the entrance of the 30-story American Furniture Mart Building on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive is a bas-relief of a woodman hacking a tree into logs, a sawyer cutting the logs into lumber, a carpenter fashioning the lumber into furniture. Under this symbolic device last week hurried thousands of furniture buyers from big stores and little throughout the land to attend the 21st semi-annual exhibition of the American Furniture Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros...