Word: bison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plate. Then He taps your shoulder. 'Son,' He says, 'you take it from here'-and drops you flat on your puss." When the lowly Philadelphia Phillies fired him three years ago, the greying boy wonder shuffled off to Buffalo to manage the minor-league Bison team...
Ancient Americans. Probably the greenest diggers' pasture at present is the Western Hemisphere. During the last Ice Age, some 15,000 years ago, the now arid U.S. southwest was a well-watered temperate paradise swarming with bison, camels, mammoths, horses, giant ground-sloths. Clad in skins and armed with puny, flint-pointed darts, Ancient Man scurried about this dangerous, Pleistocene...
Mammoth in the Bull Ring. The existence of human life in the southwestern U.S. during the late glacial period was confirmed in 1927 with the discovery at Folsom, N.M. of chipped stone "Folsom points" between the fossilized ribs of an extinct bison. Ever since, archaeologists speculated whether "Folsom man," following the herds of bison, horses and mammoths, had migrated south. The first shred of evidence that he might have was a fossilized mammoth tusk turned up last summer in the excavation for Mexico City's new bull ring. The tusk bore a deep incision which, said the archaeologists, might...
Like most contemporary primitives, Litwak is a far less sophisticated artist than the Cro-Magnon whose paintings, the earliest known, were found in a cave at Altamira,. Spain. The caveman's graceful, seemingly off-hand study of a charging bison was obviously true to life but Litwak's view of the Metropolitan Museum (see cut) is just as obviously a cockeyed, childlike impression, painted with the cramped, awkward care of an adult artisan. Explains Artist Litwak, whose colors are as hot and heavy as a fur coat in June: "I must have everything correct, just...
Last week, ex-barber Frank Phillips, whose 4,000-acre ranch near Bartlesville, Okla. has a herd of bison, an artificial waterfall and a 300-man dining room, announced that he had reduced his salary to $1 a year. Reason : when his other income was taken into consideration, taxes gobbled all but $309.36 of his $50,000 salary...