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...Smithsonian Institution. Last June he decided to dig for longheads on the Asiatic mainland, went to Irkutsk, Siberia, 1,200 miles from the coast. In a nearby burial ground, girdled by stony mountains, Soviet scientists unearthed a group of long-headed skulls, completely different from the round skulls of present-day Siberian natives. The skulls not only matched those found on the Aleutian Islands but they were dead ringers for Algonquin Indians. Not even expert anthropologists, said Dr. Hrdlicka, could tell them apart...
...sound a craftsman and too good a storyteller to point up obvious present-day implications, Author Mann lets his political chips fall where they may, lets his readers pick up whatever chips they prefer. Some readers will find that Henry's intriguing enemies, disgruntled Protestants, priests, Jesuits, Spaniards, resemble Nazis; others will be reminded of Communists. Fussed historians will throw up their hands at the free-&-easy handling of history. But few will deny that thoroughgoing German Heinrich Mann, in seasoning this lump of historical data into a right royal and highly spiced narrative, has produced...
Because the late Financier Otto Herman Kahn's 86-room castle in Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. was too big for most present-day buyers' boots, the splendiferous estate went for a song ($100,000) to New York City's Department of Sanitation. Last week, renamed Sanita Lodge, it was thrown open to 22,000 street cleaners on vacation...
Last week Lang Williams and "Jock" Whitney decided the time had come to bring another youngster into the business, to keep it in step with present-day social trends. They announced an old friend of Lang Williams' as a new director of Freeport Sulphyr: husky, 38-year-old Alan Valentine (onetime Swarthmore footballer and Phi Beta Kappa), now president of wealthy, Eastman-endowed University of Rochester. Alan Valentine will commute from Rochester, N. Y. to Manhattan for directors' meetings, will draw the regular director's fee (normally between $10 and $20 a meeting...
...American Civil Liberties Union, since March, has accumulated a resounding voice of 86 radio stations in 35 States for its 15-minute, free weekly scripts, Civil Liberties in the News, presented as "a commentary on the present-day struggle to preserve the Bill of Rights for all people throughout our country...