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...Arthur Keith is an authority on the forerunners of Homo sapiens, Malinowski on primitive sex customs, Levy-Bruhl on primitive mentality. Harvard's Hooton, a thorough student of African archeology and a brilliant commentator of human evolution, is first and foremost an anthropometrist-a man with a pair of calipers and a battery of tabulating machines. The Smithsonian Institution's famed Ales Hrdlicka is a physical and geographical anthropologist. In range and volume of work and weight of influence, Dr. Hrdlicka would stand alone in the U. S. except for one man. That one is Franz Boas...
...battleships, to match the pair simultaneously provided for in the U. S. House of Representatives last week...
...certain amount of sharpness and craftiness of an unexpected type. . . . One of these twins has an illegitimate baby girl of 2 years, but neither the other members of the family nor any outsider knows which twin is the mother. The only remark that can be elicited from the pair of them is: 'We have one baby between...
...radio child thriller. Last autumn he heard about the radical New Theatre League's play contest. Bury the Dead was not finished in time to compete, but Playwright Shaw took his script to the League's Manhattan headquarters when he completed the fiery paean against war. A pair of tryouts by a group of proletarian mummers was arranged, the critics applauded vigorously, Mr. Shaw got a Hollywood contract and, since shrewd Broadway has caught on to the fact that one does not have to believe in collectivism to collect on the new vogue of social drama...
...Philadelphia Orchestra there are two onetime army officers who fought on opposite sides during the War. Both are first violinists. One is Hungarian George Beimel, the other Russian Yasha Kayaloff. Flutist William Kincaid and Marcel Tabuteau, first oboist, make a woodwind pair outstanding when the Philadelphians undertake Debussy. Flutist Kincaid trains vigorously each summer at Lake Sebago, Me. Leon Frengut, a viola player, takes his recreation at the racetracks. Samuel Lifschey, leader of the viola section, has been a six-day bicycle racer, a dentist, a pharmacist, an engineer. Yarnspinner of the Orchestra is Trombonist Eddie Gerhard. Bill Greenberg...