Word: caves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glamorous, remote, subsidized by its own French suppliers, Paris uttered its whims from a sort of international vacuum, an oracle in a cave. To get the oracular word was worth lush expense accounts (around $5,000 a trip) to respectable U. S. manufacturers. From Mrs. Harrison Williams, who bought her wardrobe at the openings, to a 30th Street shoestringer who stole his line by camera from Bergdorf's window, the whole world got the same word, simultaneously. Last week the U. S. dress business still half-hoped Paris would rise from its tomb to speak the authoritative word...
...Million B. C. (United Artists), Hollywood's most important contribution to paleontology since The Lost World, spectacularly illustrates the Hal Roach theory of evolution-when Cave Boy meets Cave Girl there is a big improvement in mankind's table manners. Early in 1,000,000 B. C. Cave Boy is still tearing off hunks of roast triceratops, scrambling up a high rock to squat and gnaw. By 999,999 B. C. Cave Girl has him eating out of a clam shell. She is less successful with the shoals of hungry reptiles which swarm into the picture from practically...
...Angry Volcano, his father (Lon Chancy Jr.). Five minutes later he is heaved off another cliff by a mammoth. Amid assorted saurians Tumak floats safely down to the country of the Shell People, who are soft-living sybarites about 1,001,940 years ahead of their time. Even a cave man can see that Shining Star, their blonde leading lady (Carole Landis), is a Hollywood babe in a deerskin playsuit...
Sandia Man's old home is a cave on the side of a canyon in New Mexico's rugged Sandia mountains. It was discovered in 1935, has since been cleared for more than 150 yards under the direction of Archeologist Frank Cummings Hibben of the nearby University of New Mexico. The floor, as found, was littered with droppings of rats and bats. Under that was a stalagmite formation made of limestone dissolved from the roof; under that a Folsom layer containing typical Folsom spearpoints, charcoal, bones of sloths and catlike carnivores not yet identified; under that a layer...
Unlike Folsom points, which at the butt ends are square and barbed, Sandia points are pointed at both ends, have a characteristic indentation or "shoulder" on one side. Apparently Sandia Man built fires at the cave mouth to cook the animals he killed, and ate them inside. Like Folsom Man, he is a ghost-no human skeletal material has been found. But Dr. Hibben plans further excavation this summer, hopes that remains of Sandia Man, or of Folsom Man, or of both, may come to light...