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...California, whose African Expedition is financing Dr. Broom, described Swartkrans Man as "a million-dollar discovery, what we were dreaming about for 14 months in Africa." The discovery of Swartkrans Man should buttress the theory, not previously accepted by all paleontologists, that nature experimented, something over a million years ago, with big, lumbering men* before settling finally on the present model...
...Pennsylvania, paleontologists were studying traces of another two-legged monster more ancient and primitive than man. About two weeks ago, Michael Kosinski, a contractor, noticed some curious tracks in a sandstone ledge near Hallton, 90 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. He told his brother James, who works for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum. James took plaster casts of the tracks to Dr. J. LeRoy Kay, who hurried out for a first-hand look at them...
...strange tracks were in sandstone laid down as mud during the Pennsylvanian Age more than 200 million years ago. They must have been made by an amphibian, for no dinosaur or other sizable reptile was alive then. And it must have been a very curious beast. The tracks, 20 pairs of them, have round heel prints about three inches in diameter. Flaring out in front are two wide-spreading, clawless toes about 5½ inches long and two little toes1½ inches long. A long, trailing tail made an intermittent mark between the tracks...
Spaewife was pinned to the mare, and eventually she was bred to an Australian stallion. Six years ago, a weedy yearling-reportedly one of her descendants-was led into an auction ring and knocked down for ?400. That was how Peter Riddle, a veteran Australian horseman, came by Shannon...
Since Babe Ruth tore his finger on some chicken wire 17 years ago, at least 5,000 big leaguers have visited baseball's two surgical meccas-St. Louis and Baltimore. Doc Hyland, a good-natured, husky 60, gets all the St. Louis trade, and a lot of Eastern clients besides. In Baltimore, the man to see is testy, trim Dr. George Bennett, a famed orthopedic surgeon and a rabid baseball fan, like Hyland. Dr. Bennett's most recent patient: Joe DiMaggio, who walked out of Johns Hopkins hospital on crutches last week after having a spur cut from...