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Successfully combining new talent with an old play, the screen version of The Importance of Being Earnest is as amusing as it is dated. The result is a mocking comedy at the expense of an extinct species...
...missing link" fish zoologists had thought extinct...
...four clumsy fins that looked a bit like legs. It lived for three hours, oozed oil from under its scales, bit the captain, and was taken ashore, where a local naturalist recognized it as a coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth), a fish which zoologists had believed extinct for at least 50 million years. Coelacanths appeared 300 million years ago and were much like the primitive, sea-keeping ancestors of all land vertebrates, including...
...extinct institution of the Worcester era was Lyman House. Miss Mabel Lyman recognized the need for a place in which students could convalesce after leaving the infirmary, and donated a home that hundreds of men utilized over a period of 20 years. One of Lyman's House's main functions was to take care of mentally-disturbed students who needed the security of something more than dormitory life. It went out with...
Game of Polo. The Lancashire Fusiliers, only white regulars in the field between the Sudan and South Africa, pushed into the equatorial highlands towering above Lake Nairasha. One detachment of Fusiliers chased a band of Mau Mau up the rain-rutted sides of a 9,000-ft. extinct volcano. A posse of Kenya planters threw the Mau Mau lookouts off guard by staging a mock polo tournament, then suddenly dropped their polo sticks, whipped out rifles and charged the Mau Mau redoubt. From the ridges above came the sweating Fusiliers; behind, the Mau Mau found their retreat...