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...bare of treasures-which is what boys naturally expect to find in caves-but the walls, in the eye of their flashlight, swarmed with strange painted beasts. Some 20,000 years old, the pictures were almost perfectly preserved. They had found mankind's oldest shrine, painted by Cro-Magnon...
...French press hopefully referred to it as "La jeune fille de Pataud." It was confirmed recently by Professor H. V. Vallois, Director of the Musee de 1'Homme in Paris and co-director of the expedition, that the skull is of a 15 to 18 year old Cro-Magnon girl...
Goldilocks, a musical visit to the Cro-Magnon days of moviemaking, was singing just a bit off key in Philadelphia, and its authors, Critic Walter Kerr and his wife Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies), were working overtime to tune it up. At the Grand, the musical version of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel that is scheduled to take Paul Muni back to his beginnings as a vaudeville hoofer, is laid up in California while its producers try to produce a new book. Other shows were more nearly ready to kiss the road goodbye...
...part of its new look, Big Steel has brought up to date some Cro-Magnon personnel policies. More than half its 271,000 employees are paid incentive bonuses, often up to 40% over base pay. One result is that the number of man-hours needed to produce a ton of steel has decreased from about 16 in 1941 to about twelve today. One reason this was possible: in that same period U.S. Steel boosted research outlays fivefold...
...living tenants, the shaft sank, foot after foot, toward the dimmest beginnings of human history. Subtle changes in bits of stone, covered by the garbage of ancient man, told of the shifts of culture. Solecki spent many feet of digging in the Aurignacian period (of the well-built Cro-Magnon men). Then he entered the Mousterian period (of the Neanderthal men, stooped and beetle-browed). At 26 feet below the surface, he found the scattered bones of a child less than a year old who had died something like 70,000 years ago. The child had lain there while dirt...