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...Mexico City. When Steppat saw the skull he decided to combine sculpture and science to give it an authentic face. He first considered dissecting corpses and measuring the average thickness of tissue on modern human faces. But he found that the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Wilton M. Krogman had done the job already, establishing the average thickness of face flesh at 15 points...
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Miss America-the average, not the contest-winner-got sized up by a high-ranking U.S. anthropologist, and probably wished she hadn't. How she stacks, according to Dr. Wilton M. Krogman of the University of Chicago: 5 ft. 3 in., 135 lbs. (fattish), has "tires" just below the waist and stenographer's-spread standing up, oftener than not is knock-kneed and potbellied, waddles when she walks, and "only goes out two inches from the chest to the bust-line...
...Accused Brother. In Ohio a man was accused of murdering his brother, whose skeleton was dug up several years after his disappearance. Professor Krogman readily identified the skeleton as that of the missing man. Then the police asked him a harder question: Could he verify or refute the survivor's assertion that he had killed his brother in self-defense? The Professor carefully examined the bones and the paths of lead shot embedded in them, then reconstructed a picture of the killing which corresponded exactly with the survivor's story that he had crouched and shot his brother...
...shoemaker was accused of having lured a young girl into his basement shop and killed her. Police dug into the shop's dirt floor, found an amazing collection of bones that seemed to explain a whole series of recent unsolved crimes. When they took the bones to Professor Krogman, he quickly identified them as those of a cow, five sheep, a turkey, a rat, a pigeon, a barn...