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...Committee will not find it easy at first to free itself of the difficulties regarding eligibility, something which the respective athletic associations are now able to do if only from long practice. There will be twilight grounds between eligibility and ineligibility which will prove difficult to decide due to inexperience. This, however, is the length to which the three Universities must go to prove their amateur standing...
...fitting eulogy of a glorious ruling House whose power is no more, comes Bertita Harding's Imperial Twilight, a stirring account of the lives of Karl and Zita of Hapsburg. Purposely avoiding more than a bare outline of the historical and political background, the author focuses almost her sole attention on the ill starred war-time rulers, struggling valiantly to hold together a tottering empire, whose collapse the outbreak of that first world conflagration rendered inevitable...
...sincere devotion to the Magyar people. Karl's efforts were doomed to frustration from the outset. Out of the wretched peace at Versailles came a new doctrine of brute force. Mercifully he did not live to see Vienna fall an easy prey to a remilitarized Prussia. Even as twilight descended upon the House of Hapsburg, darkness was once more beginning to fall all over Europe...
...incessantly trumpeted that mankind is on the biological skids, that man had better find out what to do about it and then do it before it is too late. That was his message in Apes, Men and Morons (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937), and that is still his message in Twilight of Man, published last week.* "Here," says Dr. Hooton, "is more raucous crying in the wilderness. . . . Human behavior has continued to deteriorate." Hooton feels that his is a voice in a wilderness because: 1) men like to think of themselves not as imperfect and unstable animal organisms but as vessels...
...Twilight of Man is illustrated with Hooton's own drawings, one of which thoroughly illustrates the phenomenon of steatopygia - an accumulation of fat on the posterior - which appears in the females of some primitive human types, and which probably helped some women of the Glacial Period to keep warm when skimpier males crowded them from the fire. Hooton "apologizes" for his drawings thus: "Amateur illustration by an author is like profanity in conversation. It probably serves no useful purpose and certainly is shocking and objectionable to many, but the perpetrator enjoys...