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...Bone & Helmet. While the Shay discovery was in the works, other Southwestern amateurs were busy. Two high-school teachers of Tucumcari, N. Mex. found a dinosaur leg bone 4½ feet long. A group of officers from Sandia Base, poking in a cave near Socorro, N. Mex., found all sorts of 1,200-year-old Indian stuff, including yucca-fiber ropes and a pouchful of oddments that were the professional equipment of an ancient medicine...
...some U.S. schoolboys, making history is often a good deal easier than mastering it. Last week, as a case in point, the English Record, a quarterly put out by the New York State English Council, happily published the following high-school composition...
While professional musicmakers boggle, the U.S. public is quietly turning an unpromising record into a major pop hit. Oh, Happy Day, written by a lanky (6 ft. 1 in.), 17-year-old Cleveland high-school junior named Don Howard (full name: Donald Howard Kaplow), is a rudimentary little piece. To the accompaniment of his own guitar, Donnie himself moos his happy tune with the hoarse lilt of a fogbound ferry whistle. Sample chorus...
Dwyer was a track natural from the moment he took up cross-country running as a high-school senior, to strengthen a leg weakened by a basketball injury. He was first in every cross-country run he entered, won the New Jersey schoolboy title as a miler both indoors and outdoors. His best time in his first year as a miler: a remarkable 4:22.9. Under Villanova Coach Jim Elliot, Dwyer blossomed into a respectable collegiate miler, but was no great shakes in the big time against the likes of Gehrmann and Wilt until his sudden blooming this year...
...Ellison, a 15-year-old Alexandria, Va. high-school girl, was puzzled to find that in some textbook versions of the poem Sea Fever ("I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky"), the word "go" was omitted. She sent her problem to the author and back came a hand-written note from John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England since 1930, who wrote: "The word 'go' should be in the line. In some editions it dropped out somehow, but is now restored. It is the original reading...