Word: brontosauruses
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Remember the Brontosaurus. Geoffrey Crowther, brilliant editor of the Economist, in a series of broadcasts this month put the British economic situation in careful perspective. Said...
...Museum of Natural History and professor of paleontology at Columbia University, tracks them down and digs out their bones from under the rock layers that hide them. But one dinosaur had always eluded him: the coelophysis, diminutive (3 ft. high, 6 ft. long) but impressive granddaddy of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Brontosaurus and all the other Mesozoic monsters...
...treacle for snaring readers discovered by Morrill Goddard, when Hearst lured him away from Pulitzer to found the Weekly, still works. A typical Goddard issue mixed a princess in distress, an actress "telling all," science's latest mechanical brain, and a snorting brontosaurus. Oldtime Goddard-admirers at the American Weekly say that his secret was his ability to believe anything that made a good story. It was a big help that most of the things he wanted to believe happened in remote villages in Siberia, China and the Balkans...
Before long the girl-shy Whirlwind, drunk with love, is as friskily unmanageable as a brontosaurus in a bridal suite. (Good scene: his Dionysian rumba with exhausted Miss Russell in her apartment, to ear-cleaving radio music, deep in the night.) Meanwhile the Honest Man (Brian Aherne), who is writing Miss Russell's profile, loafs around with his hat jammed on (to prove he is a journalist), befriends the bemused Whirlwind, sneers at double-dealing Miss Russell, grabs her the instant she betrays a dawning sense of decency...
...thought his six-foot frame was quite a respectable size, until Professor Mather told him that the brontosaurus grew to a length of 95 feet. He thought the earth which he inhabited was pretty roomy, until he was told that all of its fellow planets have only one seven-hundredth of the bulk of the solar system, and even the sun, which contains all of the rest of the volume, is just a second or third rate star...