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Asked by the Ohio State scientists to identify the 2½-in.-long fossil, Paleontologist Edwin Colbert, of the American Museum of Natural History, last week announced that it was a bit of jaw bone from a 3 to 4 ft. salamander-like creature that lived about 200 million years ago in the early Triassic period. It was the first evidence that land vertebrates had roamed Antarctica when its climate was warm...
Baumgartner suffered a severely fractured jaw when he collided with another player. A strong backchecker, he played an aggressive game, and his absence hurts the Crimson defense...
...Crybaby. Something had to give. When Recruit Douglas Ratliff punched him in the jaw during a judo class, Johnson, who ranked first in physical fitness, struck back. No one broke up the scuffle until Johnson decked Ratliff, who took three stitches for a cut lip. Ratliff was asked to resign for breaking a strict no-fighting rule. Blasher was forced out because of his "attitude"-though he was first in the class scholastically. Impulsively, Johnson resigned in protest, charging that Blasher had been bounced because of his friendship for him. Blasher, who had spent a year on the Los Angeles...
Hunt is an emotional arsonist who starts fires in others simply to watch them burn. Semple becomes his natural prey. Hunt constantly involves him in schoolyard beatings without ever fighting himself. He goads Semple into cramming a billiard ball into his mouth, dislocating his jaw. Finally Hunt taunts him into a shed where Hunt's own girl lies, ready to seduce him. Semple finds the confrontation so frightening that he loses all hold on rationality, murders the girl, and is committed as criminally insane...
...audience roars its welcome; they can hardly wait for Hope to sock it to them. And so he does. Five, six gags a minute. Pertinent, impertinent, leering, perishing. And sometimes plopping, but only for an instant. When he misses, the famous scooped snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops in mock anguish, or he goes into a stop-action freeze. Sometimes he just repeats the line until the audience gets it. They don't have to laugh of course -but if they don't, it's almost treason...