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Atomic physics last week settled another anthropological argument: the age of Folsom Man. Ever since 1926, when a peculiar stone spear point was found at Folsom, N. Mex., U.S. archeologists have debated the antiquity of the culture that produced it. Some argued that the oddly grooved "Folsom points" were made by ancestors of modern Indians only some four or five thousand years ago. Others were sure that they were 10-20,000 years old and were made by nomadic hunters far more primitive than the Indians...
There was not much to judge by. The grooved points have showed up all over the southwest and as far east as Virginia, but Folsom Man apparently built no dwellings, and he did not leave his bones where they would be preserved for modern diggers. Chief argument for his antiquity was that his characteristic spear points are often found associated with the bones of animals, particularly a kind of now-extinct bison (Bison taylori). But not all experts were convinced by such evidence; Bison taylori, they objected, may have been around until fairly recent times...
Last week from RCA's President Frank Folsom came a blistering refusal: "Your request cannot be regarded as ... in accordance with the well-established American principles of free competition and fair play. If this kind of thing goes on in America, the Phillies certainly missed a bet in the last World Series. They should have asked the Yanks for Joe DiMaggio . . Nothing, not even our tri-color tube can remedy the basic defect of the system you adopted, namely, its total inability to receive any picture whatsoever on the 9,000,000 sets outstanding . . . today." t With that...
Governor James E. Folsom, in no kissin' mood, sued the Reader's Digest for $1,000,000 on the ground that an article on the Alabama penal system called "Devil's Island, U.S.A." was a libel on him and "on the people of Alabama...
Touchy moviemen sent an angry protest to RCA President Frank Folsom about a skit by TV Comics Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on the Colgate Comedy Hour (NBC-TV). The skit, showing a theater owner literally dragging patrons off the sidewalks and a cashier baiting passers-by in a low-cut evening gown, had "done serious damage to the industry." The moviemen asked RCA to "take steps immediately to see that this scene is not repeated on other stations." Martin & Lewis quickly apologized...