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...eyes bulging out of its head; grave, long-fingered, acrobatic monkeys; a Dartmoor pony standing in ferns that look like fossil prints; an old Zebu bull with mountainous shoulders; a leopard which is almost pure draftsmanship without substance. A formalized antelope reminded visitors of the wall drawings of Cro-Magnon cave men. A group of storks and herons seemed to be millions of years old, to show atavistic traces of reptilian ancestry...
...prevalent of the past, present and future of human dentition. Dr. Nye W. Goodman of Los Angeles declared that a great many people were "dental cripples." Dr. Samuel Rabkin of Cincinnati, who believes that wars and economic struggle are factors in tooth decline, showed photographs of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon skulls proving that even those oldtimers had pyorrhea. On exhibit from Northwestern University was a ponderous Stone Age flint hammer, presumably an early instrument for curing dental hurts since it was found with a little heap of broken teeth. In making and fitting false teeth, dentists have found it harder...
...Orleans, La., Sidney Magnon, 53, banana trimmer, bet Walter Massarini $25 he could stay under water for 25 minutes, won. The $25 went to the relict and four children of Sidney Magnon...
...Folsom points, mixed with 17 pieces of a badly mashed human skeleton. Dr. Jenks called its one-time owner "Browns Valley Man," put his age at 12,000 years. He was 25 to 40 years old when he perished, had a short face and long skull like the Cro-Magnon man of Europe's Stone Age, jutting brow ridges, a wide jaw and wide skull base...
...Democracy--argument perhaps a trifle subtle for Vagabondian comprehension--but at all events, worth while. Yet the Semitic Museum will no doubt win the day, for no Vagabond can resist the temptation to hear of his ancestors, and Professor Hooton in Room A will talk on the Cro-Magnon Man foremost of Vagabonds. Thus endeth the morning. And Boze Suyder is playing at Waldron's in the afternoon...