Word: kunkel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farmer Engert found no treasure, but he did find fragments of pottery, stone implements and bone, which he showed to the schoolteacher in the village of Tiefenellern. The relics eventually got to Dr. Otto Kunkel, curator of the prehistoric department of the Bavarian National Museum. Dr. Kunkel suspected their importance and encouraged a thorough exploration of the cave where the red mouse beckoned...
...floor of the cave, they found a jumbled mass of human bones. Sorted-out and carefully studied, the bones proved to be the remains of not three but 40 young women, none of them more than 20 years old. They may or may not have been virgins, says Dr. Kunkel. but "the skulls and bones are of such fine structure and regular proportions that they must have belonged to girls who, even today, would be considered beautiful...
...diggers concluded that it was a kind of restaurant. The pottery proved that its patrons were "Danube Culture People," a crude neolithic type that flourished in Central Europe some 5,000 years ago. But the bones of the 40 young girls. were much finer and more delicate. Dr. Kunkel suspects that they belonged to a different race,whose settlements were raided periodically for edible young women...
Princeton freshmen: Bow, Cromwell; 2, Dunn; 3, Howell; 4, Hicks; 5, Kirkham; 6, Detjens; 7, Kunkel; stroke, Willauer; Cox, Haselkorn...
Harry Truman reversed himself. He announced that, if Congress insisted, he would accept the authority to control prices-but only on a stand-by basis. House Banking & Currency Committee Chairman Brent Spence stitched together a new bill along these lines. Then the fight began over the rival Spence and Kunkel bills...