Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boyhood of a hippopotamus probably isn't so bad after all, two animal experts at the University agreed yesterday. An associate curator of Mammalogy and Richard L. Solomon, associate professor of Social Psychology, both took issue with a Belgian zoologist who claims--according to last Sunday's New York Times--that the young male hippo suffers from "a complex of fear and frustration...
Meanwhile, the Assistant Curator of Mammals and Birds of the Bronx Zoo reported that the two young male hippopotamuses there have shown no evidence of fear, frustration, or domination by females--as the Belgian zoologist contends. "Of course the environment may make a difference," Miss Grace Duvall added...
...American Negro, says Zoologist Curt Stern of the University of California in Scientific American, is doomed to disappear through racial diffusion. As a group of mankind, American Negroes are relatively new. They have existed for only 300 years, and are already notably mixed. Dr. Stern figures from their blood-group makeup that about two-thirds of their genetic material (heredity) comes from Africa, about one-third from Europe. More than 78% of American Negroes have some non-African genes; by 1980 there will be hardly a single U.S. Negro of pure African descent...
Rockets to Godfrey. The sort of things that happen range from Physicist James Van Allen's experiments with high-altitude research rockets to Psychologist Wendell Johnson's pioneering work with stutterers, from Zoologist Harold Beam's studies on the organization of cells to the Institute of Gerontology's "clearing house" on the problems of old age. The medical school, with its three affiliated hospitals, is a major center for the treatment of handicapped children, rightfully boasts such names as Surgeon Arthur Steindler, Ophthalmologist Alson Braley, Heart Specialist William Bean, and Carroll Larson, authority on arthroplasty...
...down to Little Rock, Ark. last week to discuss his specialty at the sixth annual conference of neuropsychiatrists. Lecturing on sexual abnormality, he told his psychiatrist audience deviations such as homosexuality are hardly surprising among humans. The reason: they are relatively common among animals. Some of his critics, said Zoologist Kinsey, want to have three "kingdoms"−plant, animal and man, ignoring the biological fact that man is an animal...