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Such was the Folsom situation when Major Roy Gregg Coffin of Colorado Agricultural College and his brother made a find in a dry arroyo that brought Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts on the run from the Smithsonian Institution. Beneath 20 feet of ancient soil, Dr. Roberts laid bare what must have been a teeming Ice Age campsite and tool factory. Besides 30 Folsom points of jasper, chert and chalcedony, there was a scattered armamentarium of scrapers, knives, drills, engraving implements, hammers. Extending over a half-mile, the site was apparently once a lush pasture where Pleistocene animals, following the retreating...
...second meeting of the newly-organized Harvard Bridge Club will get underway tonight at eight o'clock at the Hotel Commander. Under the sponsorship of John M. Pratt and George S. Coffin '28, the weekly tournaments can be entered by any member of the University for small charge. The winners will receive prizes...
...Yorker offices. Once he held a noise-making contest with carpenters and plasterers by rolling metal trash baskets up & down corridors. Stenographers still remember the day when James Thurber powdered his face white, upset the telephone booth, climbed into it, pretended he was a corpse in a coffin...
...comfortable Manhattan studio of Levon West last week assembled Mr. & Mrs. Sherman Reese Hoyt, Dr. & Mrs. Byron Stookey, Mr. Howard E. Coffin, Mrs. Jacob Gould Schurman, Mrs. Richard C. Bondy, Dr. & Mrs. Philip Childs Potter, Mrs. Eli Whitney Debevoise, and a French poodle named Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen...
...Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...