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...thinned and spectators in evening clothes stood along the curbs, the march went on. Finally, at 2:40 a. m. when the band music had become as much a part of the city voice as the roar of elevated trains, the last Legionnaires turned off the Avenue and the longest parade in U. S. history was over, 17¾ hours after it had begun...
...longest city walls in China, built in large part by the early Ming Emperors, encircle the strange city of Nanking. Seven times it has been the capital of Chinese dynasties, as it is today the capital of the republic, and Nanking was old when Jesus was a babe in Bethlehem. Whole districts inside the capital's walls are open fields, dotted here and there with ruined bridges that once spanned rivulets which no longer exist. Down by the Bund fronting the Yangtze River lives a large community of Nanking's 500,000 Chinese people, pack-jammed into squalid...
...size of the track (½ mile instead of 2½), the size of the prizes ($5,000 instead of $20,000), the length of the cars (6 ft. instead of 12). But to the midget racers, who call their cars "doodlebugs," last week's race was the longest and most important...
Aside from astronomers and geologists, who pay mankind little regard, anthropologists have perhaps the longest view of human history. For many a modern artist and thinker, anthropological researches into primitive cultures have refreshed the past, illuminated the present, enriched Man's theory of himself. This week one of the most brilliant living anthropologists, London's Bronislaw Malinowski, introduced to U. S. readers an emigre German professor's study of primitive art as "one of the first contributions to real anthropology . . . the only objective, clear and telling documentation of native opinion on Europeans...
...defective and the insect is detected and devoured by preying birds, it cannot profit by the experience of being eaten or pass on any profit to any offspring. Only alternative is the neo-Darwinist conclusion that the insects which happen to have the most protective coloring will live longest and pass on their advantages to large numbers of offspring...