Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fortnight Dr. Colbert and his assistant George Whitaker were exploring Arroyo Yeso, a gypsum gulch on Ghost Ranch, near Abiquin, N. Mex. Suddenly Whitaker uttered a cry of joy, rushed to the bank and pointed triumphantly to a small fossil claw. Dr. Colbert had got his coelophysis...
Because the bones in Dr. Colbert's quarry are softer than the Chinle (sandy clay) formation that surrounds them, they must be taken up with great care. No attempt is being made to recover individual bones at Ghost Ranch: the entire bonanza is being hewn out in big blocks of rock (one to eight tons each), and shipped to Manhattan. There, in the next few months, experts will remove the matrix of rock around the fossils, and carefully polish and reassemble the skeletons...
...playing 90 concerts a year at minimums of $1,000 to '$1,500 a concert, had been paid $40,000 to ghost fiddle in Hollywood, for John Garfield in Humoresque. Next month he will set out on his first commercial tour outside the U.S. (he made three U.S.O. trips to the Pacific...
...Ghost and Mrs. Muir (20th Century-Fox) seems like a bit of ectoplasm left over from Blithe Spirit, but despite that handicap does fairly well by itself. A pretty English widow (Gene Tierney) rents a house by the seashore, complete with ghost. The ghost (Rex Harrison), all that is left of a fierce-whiskered sea captain who died there, still loves the place and jealously scares off new tenants...
...down to dictating his memoirs, which are as briny ashore as at sea. The captain's bawdy memoirs become a bestseller, and settle the widow's money troubles. More intimate troubles are less easily attended to, for it is no fun to fall in love with a ghost. She tries to face reality by taking up with a simpering masher (George Sanders) who writes children's books, but she should have known better...