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...Yellow Lava. When the Allies divided Germany's Pacific empire after World War I, Australia shared New Guinea half-&-half with the Dutch, also got the neighboring Bismarck Archipelago and renamed its chief islands New Britain and New Ireland. Similarly mandated to Australia were the nearby, seemingly insignificant Solomons. Japan got the Marshalls and the Carolines. All the mandating powers promised not to fortify their new protectorates...
Though many a well-known art collector has paid high prices for his lava-like statues, Sculptor Lipchitz is living from hand to mouth in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, worried because poverty and U.S. war priorities have deprived him of his favorite material: bronze. Lacking bronze, he will try wood for portrait heads and terra cotta for garden sculpture which he wistfully hopes the U.S. will want...
...After an education in this institution, Hall finds life among his people a little perplexing and a lot more virile than he had become accustomed to, However, he thrashes the villain with proper despatch, handles the love scenes quite well, and at last sees the villain consumed in molten lava while he and his bride stand ready for the final clinch...
...northeast Wyoming, near Sundance, one day last week, Parachutist George Hopkins leaped out of an airplane to win a $50 bet. The problem was to collect. For George Hopkins landed, as the bet prescribed, on Devil's Tower. A lava blister, formed by an eruption 20,000,000 years ago, Devil's Tower is a gigantic rock stump rising 1,200 feet into the sky. Teddy Roosevelt made it the country's first national monument. Its weathered sides are fluted, nearly vertical, practically unscalable...
Fired with enthusiasm, Professor Troxell started looking for resonant rocks, found an ideal deposit of them in a 200-million-year-old lava bed atop Avon Mountain near his home in Hertford. Toting a load of particularly clangorous cobbles home with him, Professor Troxell set them in a row, chipped them into tune with the aid of a chisel and a 10? pitch pipe. When he was through, he had a complete C Major scale three octaves long...