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The Dutch-owned island of Java has been a rich hunting ground for investigators of the human family tree. In 1890 Professor Eugene Dubois found the first fossil bones of the famed apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus. Another early type found in Java, Homo soloensis, shows affinities with the Neanderthalers of Europe...
It was too cold in upstate New York last week to go around without a heavy overcoat. In the University of Rochester's Strong Auditorium, although the inside temperature was comfortable, the audience felt sympathetically chilly when two scientists told how they had shivered in the interests of scientific...
Drs. DuBois & Hardy had decided to find out more about the body's mechanisms for mitigating heat and cold-that is, to establish the temperature zones in which various reactions occur. Every morning one or the other arrived at the laboratory at 9 o'clock, without breakfast, and...
For his water spectacle, which he named BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE, the velvet-eyed little showman hired a handful of aquatic stars including Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, who is at home with either water or champagne. Divers Aileen Riggin and Dick Degener and Stubby Kreuger, the diving...
It was confusing for gallery-goers last week to realize that six of the nine Realists were once members of a group that called itself The Eight,* and was formed about 1908 to show these paintings which academicians of the time were regarding with all the horror that their descendants...