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Another of man's big (and probably dumb) relatives turned up last week. Dr. Robert Broom, 83, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum, cabled to the University of California that he had found the gigantic teeth and massive lower jaw of an apeman far bigger than a modern gorilla. Dug out of a limestone cave at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, the teeth and jaw are definitely human, rather than apelike. Their original owner (who will now be called "Swartkrans Man") must have looked something like the huge primates, Meganthropus and Gigantopithecus, whose teeth were found in Java and China some years...
...abandoned lime quarry at Makapangsgat, Transvaal, yielded two bones last year to Dart's diggers: part of an occiput (the back part of the skull) and a lower, jaw, from a pygmy moppet who had died while still getting his second teeth. Near by were many baboon skulls, bashed in from above or behind with a club which had a ridged head (the distal end of the humerus...
Then, as Toga was led out, Politis grabbed his tongue with his left hand, pulled it out as far as he could and came up hard under his jaw with his right fist. His teeth bit right through his tongue...
...Machine. At the controls of the Drew machine was Alexander D. McKenzie, a Toronto lawyer with cold blue eyes, a hard jaw and a nice sense of timing. Under McKenzie's direction, Drew workers exerted no visible pressure. But the invisible pressure was irresistible. It built up gradually day by day as McKenzie carefully organized "spontaneous" gatherings of delegates, then called in Drew to radiate charm and say nothing...
That parboiled ape, with the toughest jaw you will...