Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bleeding Toes. Rosalind's tireless energy was bred in the bone. She was born 45 years ago in Waterbury, Conn the fourth of seven children ("I'm the ham in the middle") of Clara and James Edward Russell, a prosperous lawyer. She was named, not for Shakespeare's heroine, but for the S.S. Rosalind, a boat that once carried Father & Mother Russell on a vacation voyage to Nova Scotia...
Doctors gave Actress Bette Davis, whose Broadway show Two's Company closed a fortnight ago because of her frequent illness, an unhappy diagnosis: severe chronic osteomyelitis of the jawbone. She was ordered to the hospital to have the entire infected portion of the bone removed...
Spearhead & Rib. Postmaster Oscar Shay, an enthusiastic amateur of Portales, N. Mex., recently found what is probably the first authentic bone of Folsom Man, a mysterious race of hunters who lived 10,000 years ago. Shay went bone-hunting with Jerry Ainsworth, a student at Eastern New Mexico College. Near a small stream called Blackwater Draw, they found the skeleton of a "dire wolf," a husky, toothy, carnivorous beast that died out toward the end of the glacial period...
When not busy selling stamps and sorting mail. Postmaster Shay kept digging systematically near Blackwater Draw. At last he found what looked like a human bone. He took it to Archaeologist Frank Hibben of the University of New Mexico, who identified it as a human rib. Since it came from the same stratum as the dire wolf that had tangled with a Folsom hunter. Dr. Hibben believes that it is a Folsom bone, the first ever found. He hopes that further digging will turn up the rest of the skeleton. Then science will get a real look at shadowy Folsom...
...Bone & Helmet. While the Shay discovery was in the works, other Southwestern amateurs were busy. Two high-school teachers of Tucumcari, N. Mex. found a dinosaur leg bone 4½ feet long. A group of officers from Sandia Base, poking in a cave near Socorro, N. Mex., found all sorts of 1,200-year-old Indian stuff, including yucca-fiber ropes and a pouchful of oddments that were the professional equipment of an ancient medicine...