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Museum Celebrity. The rest of Ishi's life partly atoned for his early hardships. Treated kindly by the people of Oroville, he became a brief celebrity, and soon Anthropologist Thomas T. Waterman of the University of California took him to San Francisco in the "white man's demon," a railroad train, and gave him comfortable quarters in a museum endowed by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph Hearst...
Professor Waterman and the museum's chief, Professor Alfred Louis Kroeber, recognized Ishi as the unspoiled survivor of a vanished race. They soon became his devoted friends and admirers. When Ishi arrived in San Francisco, he had no words, even in Yahi, for most of the things he saw. English came slowly to him. Like many conservative, middle-aged men, he was a stickler for the proprieties. His native language had special forms to be spoken by men and women; for a man to use a female word when talking to other men was extremely bad manners. So Ishi...
...Wayne's astonished teachers, many of them refugees from big-name colleges, the atmosphere is reminiscent of the days when World War II veterans hit the campuses. What delights Anthropologist Richard Waterman, for example, is his students' experience-bred theses, on subjects that range from the effects of automation to a study of Detroit's homeless men. "The kids keep asking questions," says Waterman. "And where else could you get 200 state university students to turn out for a little-advertised talk by some New School cat from New York...
Guards Jerry Weilder and George Waterman are graduating, but captain-elect Terry Lenzner and Bill Swinford can handle the starting berths with ease, with Roger Wilson, Dick Baker and Tom Gaston backing them up. With only Pete Eliades graduating, the centers look solid with Jon Christensen, Steve Cohen and Tony Watters...
...starting backfield, one of Harvard's best running trios, will be making its last appearance this Saturday at the Bowl. Chet Boulris, Sam Halaby, and Albie Cullen will close out illustrious gridiron careers. Also playing their last games in Harvard uniforms will be guards Jerry Weidler and George Waterman...