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...apparently a big, rich, fortified town with elaborate tombs, industries and catacombs, which probably clung to the edge of the steppes for several thousand years. It may have been a contact point between Western civilization and the savage nomads of Asia. If so, the world's archeologists would like to hear more about it. But Soviet Digger Pavel Shultz will not tell more until his findings have been printed (if they ever are) in a Soviet publication...
Sociable Brother Charlie went one way, clung to his Republicanism but served in the New Deal, interested himself in philanthropies and social programs, recently became president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America...
...discovered in the ice of northern Siberia. Russian and German scientists hastened to study the body, then approximately 50,000 years old. Other frozen Pleistocene Age mammals had been found from time to time, but this one was so well preserved that half-chewed leaves and grasses still clung to its teeth. Its hide was covered with long, reddish-brown woolly hair. The hind legs measured nearly 50 inches from sole to knee, and weighed about 350 pounds each. The scientists had the "great satisfaction," one of them reported, of finding even the genitals "in the best possible condition...
...conjecture: his speed may have passed the dreaded limit of "compressibility" when the air streams pass the wing or control surfaces at the speed of sound (TIME, Sept. 23). A "standing sound wave" may have formed, clung like a yammering banshee, and torn the plane to shreds. Perhaps Captain De Havilland crossed that sonic threshold only to discover, in Hamlet's soaring words...
Last to drop department-store advertising was the Daily News, which had stored huge reserves of paper and early in the strike had boasted that it was doing fine.*Hardest hit was the tabloid Mirror, which shrank to a skinny eight pages but clung stubbornly to Winchell, Pearson and two pages of comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining...