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...twice refer to the C.D.F. as an "extinct" organization, and claim it "quit several years ago." This is an irresponsible falsehood. The C.D.F. only started in 1956, when it gave three productions: Henry V, a new version of The Beggar's Opera, and Saint Joan. It brought us Emlyn Williams and Marcel Marceau in 1957, two productions by the Theatre National Populaire in 1958, the Vieux-Colombier company and Gielgud's Ages of Man early this year, and is offering three shows this summer. Extinct? No; you, Mr. Capp, are the dodo...
Fossil Volcanoes. Geologists and oceanographers who look to the ocean's bottom have found that the ocean is a gigantic museum, where geological specimens are preserved like flies in amber. Among the most interesting of these geological fossils are the guyots, the flat-topped extinct volcanoes that dot the Pacific floor. How did they get down there, the oceanographer asks. Did their weight force them into the earth's crust, like corks pushed into putty? Did the ocean increase in volume and rise above them...
...small, spotted mountain lions. Tanganyika has its mngwas, which are generally described as giant cats, big as donkeys, and striped like a household tabby. Natives of many parts of Africa believe in a 30-ft., dragonlike reptile with a long neck, that lives in swamps as did the long-extinct brontosaurus. Heuvelmans thinks it may be the strange, scaly creature shown in bas-relief on the Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon...
Toward the end, Trotsky's life became a charade of frustration and fear, and Wolfe's melodramatic style is well suited to convey the unreality of it all. Trotsky liked to say that the snowy volcanoes he could see from his windows were not extinct but dormant. But could the Red Napoleon really believe that his walled house was an Elba, not a St. Helena? He had tasted power, and missed it so much that he was delighted when simple Mexicans thought of him as a prince who had fallen (hence Wolfe's title...
...small university in New York proved that buffaloes are not extinct, and the football team's first encounter was indicative of events to come. Following the team's first loss, the Varsity Club mysteriously caught on fire. And, as a result, the Harvard Band, which lost most of its scores in the blaze, was added to the New York Times' list of the Hundred Neediest Cases...