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...organized a digging party and cut a trench. In the center of the base of the mound, he found a caved-in shaft three yards in diameter. As the dirt that had fallen into it was carefully scratched away, treasure after treasure came to light...
Joffroy had long suspected that there might be tombs in his neighborhood, but for years he could find no trace of one. This year he came across some stones plowed up by farmers, and his practiced eye told him that they were the lower layer of a Celtic burial mound about 40 yards in diameter. The rest of the mound, he thinks, was probably used by invading Romans to build a nearby road...
...Chicago one day last week. White Sox Pitcher Billy Pierce, a lefthander, stared moodily down the 60-ft. stretch between the mound and home plate and faced a special problem. At the plate stood a corn-haired youngster just four years out of an Oklahoma high school, with NEW YORK spelled out in block letters on his flannel shirt, a big numeral 7 on his back. As it must to all other clubs in the American League, came the plaguing question: What does a pitcher throw to Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees...
Fletcher Hodges took two firsts and two seconds to lead the Wigg team to victory in the track meet. Paul Pawlowski's mound work and the hitting of Bill Laimbeer gave Wigg West a double-header and the league softball championship. Wigglesworth West also won rowing...
Hager, no conscious spoilsport, bases his argument on elaborate geological studies of the crater's surroundings. Except for the presence of meteoritic material, he says, there is little or no evidence to prove that the mound or the depression in its center is of meteoric origin. One of his strongest points is that the sides of the mound are made largely of white sand arranged in regular beds. This seems to point to the slow action of normal erosion, not to the sudden impact of a meteorite hitting the earth. Another strong point is that no large mass...