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Excited as a hungry terrier was Bryan Patterson when erosion revealed a deposit of old bones in a pasture near London Mills, 111. Out of the glacial blue clay came parts of a hind leg, pelvis, forefoot, vertebrae, a molar tooth. Back in Chicago's Field Museum, where he is Assistant Curator of Paleontology, Patterson pieced the fragments together. Last week he announced that he had one of the finest fossil ground sloths discovered in the U. S. since 1796. In that year the huge, extinct beast was first studied and named Megalonyx by a great U. S. paleontologist...
...test the Chase asked the N. Y. Supreme Court to pick for it the proper claimant among: 1) The Dutch Bankierskantoor Albert Graef, which has on deposit with Chase National securities (market value, almost $300,000) for its own and for its customers' accounts; 2) Dutch Minister Alexander Loudon who, as Wilhelmina's accredited U. S. representative, claims all Dutch assets in the U. S. for the duration; 3) two U. S. residents for whom Bankierskantoor held securities valued at $84,000 and who, feeling queasy about ever recovering in Holland, attached what ever assets...
...onard Trépanier who was supported actively by Madame Houde, wife of Montreal's ex-Mayor, interned because of his anti-war activities. Instead of being a serious factor in the election, he received so few votes that he lost his election deposit...
...morning last week, neighbors began to arrive as usual to get their mail at Uncle Alex's office, found his door locked. Soon a crowd filled the sidewalk-people who wanted Alexander Alexandroff to deposit their money, or register their deeds, or give them his advice for a fee. By midday the crowd was big, and Mike Sawicki, who repairs umbrellas in the same tenement, called the police. They found Alexander Alexandroff in bed in his back room, dead. One of his many cats was crouched at the window...
...last week Frank O'Hearn's eight years seemed to have gone for naught. Buffalo newspapers refused to carry a deposit advertisement. Panicky Buffalo merchants who had accepted National Depository "checks" scrambled to get back goods or cash. The New York State Banking Department Examiners moved in to investigate. While Frank O'Hearn's son and chief helper, Douglas, sought to splice the parting strands of his father's dream, Father Frank was kept from re-entering the U. S. after a weekend in Toronto. Reason: the Better Business Bureau tipped...