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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This summer, Professor Jepsen went back to Wyoming with a nine-man task force which enthusiastically tore into the site with little awls and whisk brooms. Just below the surface they found a mass of man-mangled buffalo bones with the ends broken off (a handy way to get at the marrow). With the bones were arrowheads and spearheads made by ancient nomads whom diggers call Yuma...
...much is known about Yuma Man, for no Yuma skeleton has yet been found. He may or may not have been an ancestor of modern Indians. He made beautiful and characteristic stone weapons, and seems to have lived not long after the glacial period. But no one knows what his clothes or shelters were like. He was certainly no stickler for public sanitation. Jumbled together on 625 square feet of ground were bones of more than 40 buffalo. Among them were fire sites and stone chips flaked off in making new weapons. Apparently Yuma Man, unmindful of smells and flies...
...weeks at a time she would concentrate on her radio show and get far enough ahead so that she could put in one week's work on the book. As a result: "The novel's slick, too, in places. Whenever I got to a dramatic point I found myself letting go with everything I learned in soap opera...
Last week, with a robustious performance of Rigoletto, the Rome Opera's 1949 summer season came to a close. Many of the 200,000 tourists who visited Caracalla found performances full of more swaggering and hair-on-the-chest acting than they were accustomed to; also, the vast distances sometimes provoked more screaming than singing by Caracalla's puffing stars. But most could agree that they had never seen such a striking setting or such magnificent staging...
...Sept. 8, 1947 et seq.) gave Felix Mendelssohn's 120-year-old Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (The Return from Abroad) a U.S. performance-but made no great impression with it. In fact, after three years of applauding the Lemonaders' fine selection of strange fruit, most listeners found Die Heimkehr (now titled The Stranger) a sorry piece of citrus indeed...