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...Project Gasbuggy, 7:15 Newsparade of 1937, 7:25 Buster Keaton in Coney Island, 7:45 Gerald McBoing Boing, 7:55 Bambi Meets Godzilla, 8:00 Humphrey Bogart in Sahara, 9:37 This is War...? with the Marx Brothers, 9:47 Pas de Deux, 10:07 Gertie the Dinosaur, 10:07 Humphrey Bogart in Sahara...
...communications media, through precise description; and, if his characters muse or mediate, he follows them with the fluidity of a writer who was welded his intellect, insight and emotion into vision. In his less serious pieces he is sometimes simply very funny, filling in the words to a dinosaur tea-party or chronicling the invention of the horse-collar. But his artistic effectiveness derives mostly from his subtleties of form. As if the drama in his allegory "I Am Dying, Egypt, Dying," weren't sufficiently strong to express the dilemma of outmoded, outrageous American simplicity abroad, he invests it with...
Tommy Thompson, a Life writer for 12 years, said yesterday that the folding of the magazine "is enormously said. We were the last dinosaur," Thomas added...
...midget has been identified as a Compsognathus corallestris, which, loosely translated from the Greek, means "long-jawed coral dweller." A shade over 15 in. high and only 49 in. long, the tiny reptile had a skeleton similar in construction to those of monster dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus, largest land animal ever to roam the earth. But corallestris hardly seems like a dinosaur at all. Whereas other dinosaurs lived on dry land or in swamps, corallestris made its home on offshore atolls. Like a heron or cormorant, the hollow-boned creature probably made use of its long supple neck in catching...
...fact, except for a lack of feathers, corallestris has a strong resemblance to the first true bird, archaeopteryx, which made its appearance toward the end of the age of dinosaurs. Thus Thomel thinks that examination of the dinosaur's fowl-like characteristics may shed some light on the evolution of reptiles into birds. Trouble is, he says, scientists may never get the chance to look for more specimens. In September the government expropriated the area for a missile and artillery range for the French army. Defense Minister Michel Debré has promised that the government will continue to allow...