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...Pushed along by a couple of the fastest quarter-milers in the U.S. (University of Texas' Eddie Southern and Oklahoma A. & M.'s J. W. Mashburn), Air Force 2nd Lieut. Jim Lea, sometime of U.S.C., forgot all about his sore leg and stepped off a world-record 440-yd. dash (0:45.8) at Modesto, Calif...
...Woman in Love (Barbara Lea; Riverside LP). Eight songs about the tender passion, sung in a jazz environment. Songstress Lea, whose voice is half sweet, half smoky, sings with the wistful perceptiveness of a young Lee Wiley...
...reason may be that Kirkland is in the throes of change. There is a new master--Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Mediaeval History; the Junior common room is about to be soundproofed and renovated; and the University has at long last decided to improve the appearance of the courtyard--shrubs, flower beds, and a Riviera-like sun terrace are contemplated...
Every weekend, rain or shine, whenever the ground is not frozen. Commercial Artist Bertram Wymer, 65, his wife Lea and their son John tramp across a deserted gravel pit at Swanscombe on the down-Thames outskirts of London. They walk with their heads down, eying every pebble. At the far end of the pit they enter a wire-fenced enclosure and start digging cautiously with garden trowels. They have been digging diligently ever since the end of the war, and recently they made the first finds of a peculiar treasure they have long sought...
Home Fires. The Wymer family kept on digging, now modestly backed by the British Museum of Natural History ($140) and New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation ($250). With the help of two hired laborers, they found buckets of flint chips, tools and animal bones. Then Lea Wymer found something odd in the same deep stratum: a bit of black stuff the size of her fingernail which looked like rock but felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural...