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Since Adam was created from a handful of dust, Eve from one of his ribs, could they have had navels? The question is almost as old as Adam. North Carolina's Congressman Carl Thomas Durham and his House Military Affairs subcommittee are not sure of the answer: they have attacked as Communist a pamphlet containing a cartoon which suggests that Adam & Eve did have navels. The cartoon (TIME, Jan. 31) is in The Races of Mankind (400,000 copies distributed), a 10-c- popularization of currently accepted scientific views about race which argues that any race of mankind is just as capable as any other.

Partisans of Adam & Eve navels include no known Communists (as professional atheists, Communists do not believe in Adam & Eve), do include such great Renaissance religious painters as Tintoretto, Masaccio, Titian, Michelangelo. Michelangelo painted a navel on his recumbent figure of Adam in the Pope's Sistine Chapel, died (1564) without ever having heard of Karl Marx, Stalin or Earl Browder.

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