Fairgoers

At Chicago's Century of Progress last summer was a sweltering little booth labeled "Anthropometric Laboratory for the Measurement of Man." Many a male & female visitor to the Hall of Social Sciences went in to get measured, answer the queries of Harvard scientists. When the Fair was over the researchers took back to Cambridge data on 3,100 Fairgoers. Harvard's famed Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) declared the Chicago material was "the best anthropological cross-section of the American people ever made."

John Fairgoer was found to be 29.15 years old. Taller and heavier than the average World War veteran, he stood 5 ft. 8.1 in. high, weighed 153 Ib. Jane Fairgoer was two years older than John. She weighed 138 Ib., was 5 ft. 3.65 in. tall.

Jane was darker than John. Four out of ten women had brunette skins as against three out of ten men. Of the men 14.3% were golden blonds; of the women 10.6%. One-fifth of the men, one-sixth of the women had blue eyes. But twice as many women as men were redheads.

With only half the subjects studied, Dr. Hooton has published these preliminary findings in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. "When all the material is worked out," he commented, "we shall know a great deal about the relation of physical types to education, occupation, marital state and place of birth. We ought to be able to settle the question whether gentlemen really prefer blondes."

Also from Cambridge came another report on U. S. men & women last week. Testing automobile drivers with a reaction-timing device. M. I. T. engineers announced that women take 25% longer than men to apply the brake after a red light flashed. The men responded in .70 sec., the women in .87 sec.

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