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SEPTEMBER 1955     41

acting floor leader again on July 5, 1955 for the rest of the first session of the Eighty-fourth Congress, when Senator Johnson again became ill.

The Senator is married to the former Sara Blue and has one daughter, Elizabeth Hughes.  He is stocky, wears glasses, and has a genial expression.  He enjoys eating hominy grits and sausage for breakfast.  Commenting on the Eisenhower Administration's legislative program for the Eighty-fourth Congress, Clements said:  "I am glad to see him (the President) embracing so many things that the Democrats have so long stood for. . ." (New York Times, January 8, 1955).

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N Y Times Mag p6 Ja 2 '55
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 (1950)
Congressional Directory (1955)
Who's Who in America, 1954-55
World Biography (1054)

COON, CARLETON S(TEVENS) June 23, 1904- Anthropologist; archaeologist; university professor; author
Address: b, c/o University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; h. Beaumont Lane, Devon, Pa.

In a speech at the Book and Author Luncheon in Washington, D.C. on January 19, 1955, anthropologist Carleton S. Coon, author of The Story of Man (Knopf, 1954), said that mankind is entering a new kingdom -- atomic science -- and consequently will get smarter.  He pointed out that every time an organism goes through a change it gains intelligence, as when birds got wings and flew, and when man's ancestors, the monkeys, came out of the jungle onto the plains. Dr. Coon's book, which has been called "the first anthropological account of human history which is both readable and authoritative, traces the history of man 50,000 years from the Ice Age to the present, offering some unorthodox views and upsetting some prevalent theories as to man's origins.

Since 1948 Dr. Coon has been curator of ethnology at the University Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1927 until 1948 he taught archaeology and anthropology at Harvard University, except for a period during World War II when he served in the U.S. Department of State and as a major in the U.S. Army. He is the author of over a dozen books which deal with his field work in the Middle East, the Balkans and North Africa. Among his important discoveries were the remains of a 50,000-year-old primitive Neanderthal man in North Africa in 1939 and three skeletons of presumably 75,000-year-old human beings located in Hotu Cave in northern Iran in 1951. During 1954 he excavated Kara-Kamar in northern Afghanistan and in 1955, he excavated two caves in the Arabia Deserta in Syria. He has appeared as a regular panelist on the Columbia Broadcasting System television program, What in the World?, which won the Peabody Award in 1952.

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[[caption]] CARLETON S. COON [[/caption]

Carleton Stevens Coon was born on June 23, 1904 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, the son of John Lewis and Bessie (Carleton) Coon. He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, in 1921 and received his A.B. degree (magna cum laude) from Harvard University in 1925 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. "Carl" was influenced by Professor Earnest Albert Hooton to make anthropology his career. In 1928 he received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. From 1927 until 1948 he taught anthropology at Harvard, rising from instructor to professor in 1946, with leave for service with the U.S. Government from 1942 to 1945.

He worked as special assistant to the U.S. Department of State during 1942 and 1943, and was a major in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1945. Since 1948 he has headed the general ethnology section of the University of Pennsylvania, has taught anthropology and has conducted many expeditions under the auspices of the University Museum, which was founded in Philadelphia in 1889. It is concerned with the study of man, particularly as exemplified by the remains of ancient civilizations. Its activities comprise field research in archaeology and ethnology conducted through its expeditions to all parts of the world. Dr. Coon installed a Hall of Man at the University Museum which shows the links in the chain of man's development.

During 1949 Dr. Coon headed an expedition to northern Iran, near the Russian border. In Belt Cave he found more than 31,000 artifacts showing the beginnings of agriculture including sickles whose edges were coated with chemicals from cut grain (Pathfinder, May 16, 1951).  Some of the objects were "dated" at about