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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Dinosaur? Are any dinosaurs still around? Ley tells of the Ishtar Gate in the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, which is decorated with portraits of the sirrush, a scaly, tall-walking reptile with clawed hind feet like a bird. The drawing is singularly detailed, and like nothing known to modern man until he dug up fossil dinosaurs. Ley thinks that the ancients may have seen something like, a living dinosaur. Perhaps modern man may still see one. Ley cites many descriptions of a dinosaur-like creature that may be roaming the Central African swamps...
...High schools are a graveyard for the Catholic religion. These are the years when adolescents take their first critical look at life, at themselves and at the world around them. The philosophy of this school, like every Catholic school, is to give a thorough academic training but always to emphasize the overall religious significance of life...
Last week, the news leaked out that Caltex Oil Products Corp., a joint subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California and The Texas Co., had made a deal to help build and operate a refinery in Spain, near Cartagena, at a cost of around $18 million. Caltex would put up part of the money, and own 24%. The rest would be 24% owned by Cepsa, the state oil monopoly, and 52% by another state company, Institute Nacional de Industria...
...Innocent Affair (United Artists) is one of those involved marital farces that would not last five minutes if all the principals stopped rushing around just long enough to use their heads. A young advertising executive (Fred MacMurray) is having wife trouble because he spends too many nights on the ad account of a "Mr. Fraser," who happens to be Mrs. Fraser (Louise Allbritton) and an old flame at that. This not improbable situation gets out of hand when the wife (Madeleine Carroll) plans to test her spouse's jealousy. She hires an actor to flirt with...
This is not to detract a whit from the coaching or the Crisler system that sprung Crimson runners around end time and time again for long gains; the "Michigan efficiency" is probably the key to the season as a whole. But the key to Saturday's score was more nearly found by Red Smith in his Herald Tribune story...