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...strange tracks were in sandstone laid down as mud during the Pennsylvanian Age more than 200 million years ago. They must have been made by an amphibian, for no dinosaur or other sizable reptile was alive then. And it must have been a very curious beast. The tracks, 20 pairs of them, have round heel prints about three inches in diameter. Flaring out in front are two wide-spreading, clawless toes about 5½ inches long and two little toes1½ inches long. A long, trailing tail made an intermittent mark between the tracks...
Pearson's Merry-Go-Round appears in 600 newspapers with 20 million circulation. (Estimated income to Pearson: $2,000 a week.) Then there's the radio. On Sunday nights he talks over ABC to 10 million people, for a weekly wage of $5,000 plus all the Lee hats (his sponsor) that he wants. His sponsors claim 77% accuracy for the predictions which, along with his disclosures, are his stock in trade. The batting average means little: "We can always boost it," a staffer explains candidly, "by predicting things like tomorrow will be Monday...
...other hand, Pearson's showmanship and love of spectacles combined with his Quaker faith to produce the Friendship Train. He first voiced the idea, and spent thousands of dollars to get it rolling across the U.S. last year, gathering up 700 carloads of food (worth $40 million) for France and Italy. It was not only potent propaganda for the U.S. in the East-West battle, but a memorable and characteristically Quaker act. Said the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond, of the Friendship Train: "One of the greatest projects ever born of American journalism." Next month...
...wined and duped, Monroe sued for $1,000,000. So Pearson got a young mutual friend to get better acquainted with Monroe. "I don't put servants in people's houses," explains Pearson, "or plant people around town. But in this case I was fighting for a million bucks." The young man dug up enough dirt to put Monroe in jail-and the libel suit was dismissed...
There are, says Fishbein, about 3,500 scientifically trained practicing psychologists and psychiatrists. But there are at least 25,000 others-"many of them charlatans"-who advertise that they can cure every psychic ill that man is heir to. The public now pays $375 million a year to these psychological quacks...