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...Edmund Newton Harvey was once reported eaten by cannibals near the Torres Strait south of New Guinea, but the U. S. Department of State later announced that the report was exaggerated. Having done biological research from Maine to Puget Sound, from Tortugas to California, in Naples, Bermuda, the Philippines, Java, The Netherlands East Indies, Dr. Harvey, safe & sound, is now a professor of biology at Princeton. His wife. Ethel Browne Harvey, is a distinguished biologist. For a quarter-century. Edmund Harvey has experimented much, read enormously, to learn all he could about the phenomenon of bioluminescence-production of light...
...techniques, research ability, and originality." Admittedly they are experimental even in the realm of pure knowledge. But nevertheless they were drawn up by professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, who can't all be wet. And for three seasons the exams have been tried on first-year graduate guinea-pigs at those universities with some success...
...Lutheran foreign missions in India, China, Africa, New Guinea, Palestine need $150,000. All are crippled by war, and those in the British Empire are hampered by the internment of their German pastors...
Whether Ehrlich's laboratory assistant (Edward Norris) really turned himself into a human guinea pig, inoculated himself with 606 after it had worked on an ape, is unimportant. To criticisms of such free handling of biography in his pictures, Director Dieterle long ago wrote the best answer. Said he: ".. . The dramatization of a man's life is condensing, and not copying, the historical facts. It is the steam, and not the water, that moves the engine...
Primitivist Pippin paints mostly at night, still works months on each picture. He and his wife (who calls him "Pippin") live happily on his wound benefit and the washing she takes in, always have turkey for Christmas, goose for New Year's, guinea fowl for their birthdays. Says Horace Pippin: "My opinion of art is that a man . . . paints from his heart and mind. To me it seems impossible for another to teach...