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...World's antiquity. There was a time when the artifacts, pottery, votive offerings and idols reclaimed from the soil were handed over to children as playthings or used as targets for Sunday pistol practice. But today archaeologists are alert to seize them as invaluable clues to mysterious, pre-Columbian cultures that send their roots back some 30 centuries. And art lovers now view them as art expressions of rare value...
Bill Pearson, 35, a 106-lb. jockey who is an art expert with a leaning toward pre-Columbian primitives, had a tough going-over before he initially appeared on CBS's The $64,000 Question. Like any other promising candidate, he was thoroughly screened. The Question likes candidates to be "attractive TV characters" (i.e., "characters" without being too odd), to display a paradoxical facet of personality (e.g., a cop who likes Shakespeare or a Southerner who digs Lincoln), and to demonstrate a certain expertise in a chosen field of knowledge. For two hours a day on four consecutive days...
...Santee may not be allowed to run in the Columbian mile tonight in New York as the AAU filed to have the injunction reinstating him suspended...
...bright spot, however, was the return of Maurice Toro, a Columbian who played regularly two years ago, but was out last season. Munro expects to play Toro at center forward...
CABLE TO ALASKA will be laid off the British Columbian coast by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. By 1956 A.T.&T. expects to connect Port Angeles, Wash, and Ketchikan, thus (at a cost of $14 million) add 36 new circuits to its 13 radio and land-line circuits to Alaska...