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...party, led by Museum Director John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, found the remains of two Indian huts at Hell Gap near Guernsey, Wyoming. The huts were built 10,000 years ago, 6000 years before the oldest previously dated houses. Until the recent discovery archaeologists believed that the early Indians were strictly nomadic...
Others are not so certain that it's all that easy to limn the essential Lyndon. At the Christian Science Monitor, Cartoonist Guernsey Le Pelley practiced for a week while committing the President to print, and even now draws guardedly: "You change Johnson too much and he looks like Eleanor Roosevelt." Don Wright of the Miami News finds Johnson a slippery subject. "If you aren't sure you have him, you put him in a ten-gallon hat." In the same way and for the same reason, many cartoonists suit up the President in cowboy uniform, right down...
...addition to further digging at Chicken Springs, the National Geographic grant provides for work at the Hell Gap site near Guernsey, Wyoming...
Sorry Mess. No sooner had Major Robert Anderson, U.S.A., arrived to take command at Fort Moultrie, one of the four federal forts in and around Charleston harbor, late in November 1860, than he saw that it could be successfully invaded by a herd of cows; indeed, a wandering Guernsey now and again did enter the fort by crossing the sand dunes heaped wall-high at several points. Anderson recognized Fort Sumter, then unoccupied, as stronger than Moultrie. He urged that it be garrisoned-in a message to the War Department that is as meaningful to 1958 as to 1860: "Nothing...
...stogie-chomping Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray planted chickpeas on the lawn of the gubernatorial mansion, Michigan's boyish Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams staged a cow-milking contest on the front lawn of the statehouse (for Lansing's June Dairy Month). Snuggling up to a Guernsey, Princeton-educated Soapy seized the controls confidently, but could not shift out of neutral, squeezed out fourth in a field of four. Winner: Lansing's Mayor Ralph Crego...