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...fluorine to be extremely ancient. The skull fragments may be 50,000 years old, the age of many other human bones found throughout Europe. The jawbone, according to the scientists' report in the British Museum Bulletin, fared even worse: it proved to be the jaw of a modern ape, probably an orangutan, which died at the age of ten. It had been artificially colored with potassium bichromate and an iron salt to make it look old, and its teeth had been pared to make them look more or less human. Unanswered still was the question of who had planted...
Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936, he had previously won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1920, 1922, and 1928. His outstanding works include "Mourning Becomes Electra," "Strange Interlude," "The Hairy Ape," "Beyond the Horizon," "Anna Christie," and "Emperor Jones...
Oakley explained that the basis of calling the skull a fraud was the discovery that the ape-like "Piltdown" jaw is actually that of a modern ape which had been treated with a chemical to make it appear a "fossil." When found in a Piltdown, England, gravel pit in 1911, the shape of the jaw led scientists to call it at least 100,000 and possibly 600,000 years old. The cranium itself is a genuine fossil, but the scientists now say it is only 50,000 years...
...April 20). Last month as Britain's Conservative government was working on a plan allowing some sponsored TV shows to compete with BBC's state monopoly, the British press reported indignantly that, on coronation day, Today had shown alternating views of their Queen and Garroway's ape. The incident did more than any other argument to fan fears of U.S.-style "television vulgarity...
...Dodds, such service is of a very special sort. Though every Princeton man is supposed to emerge at least part public servant, he gets his training indirectly. To a degree, thinks Dodds, in trying to ape the sciences, the social sciences have given away a lot of ground they shouldn't have. "We turn to the humanities for knowledge and wisdom about our spiritual aspirations and our human cravings for justice, beauty, honor, integrity...