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Marquis has, after all, a wonderful ability for characterization. No matter with whom he is dealing he does so sympathetically. Mister Splain, a village drunk, a backslider, chicken thief; Cherry Saltus, the stupid, over-sexed girl who turns the town upside down by her adventures; Jim Shale, the grave-digger who is guilty of being an unconfessed free-thinker--these people the author neither reproaches nor encourages. He merely shows them to you as he understands them, with all the power of his insight...
Since last January, when Mayor La-Guardia turned him loose on New York City's government as Commissioner of Investigation, apple-faced young William B. Herlands, former assistant to racket-busting District Attorney Tom Dewey, has been turning up crockeries great & small. Last week Digger Herlands unearthed something neat in political rackets, an antique...
William E. "Digger" Kendall (ex-1940), champion free-styler of the British Empire, former member of the Varsity swimming team, and currently a salesman for a nation-wide bottling concern, has returned to Cambridge and, it is feared, by the party concerned, will take part in the Varsity vs. Alumni meet in the middle of December. The Alumni meet promises to be the hardest of the season...
When German-born Professor Franz Weidenreich, famed digger for the Peking Man, told an anthropological conference at Copenhagen that all Europeans originally came from Palestine, the only other German present got up and left...
Last week Archeologist Gordon Loud, a veteran digger of 37 who now commands the Oriental Institute's Megiddo Expedition, was back in Chicago with news that he had penetrated the site down to bedrock, through 20 culture levels dating back to 3,500 B. C. Beneath the oldest level was a stone age cave containing flint instruments and bones. At the 19th level the excavators found a flagged paving in which drawings of horned animals and men had been cut. At the 18th level was a stone fortification wall 15 feet high and 24 feet wide, which indicated that...