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...Indian and Museum of Natural History, Washington's Smithsonian and Chicago's Field Museum, the Museum of Modern Art's specimens were a mere shop window. But artistically they were the cream of what U. S. and Alaskan Indian craftsmen have produced, from the prehistoric Tennessee mound builders to the present-day Navaho rugmakers and sand-painters. Looking over the assortment, which included such highly skilled items of sculpture and mask work as those shown on the two preceding pages, gallery-goers were inclined to agree that U. S. Indians are far finer artists than they have...
...writing to be one of the best seen on Soldiers Field in several years. Sophomore Bud Waldstein, who has been working out all winter in the cage is the outstanding addition from last year's Yardling squad. He joins Lou Clay, Jack Schwede, Charley Brackett and Ayres on the mound. Bob Regan will perform most of the receiving duties...
...John H. Rowe 2G, the group excavated part of an Indian burial ground, and after nine days of intensive work they had obtained a chest full of pottery, tools made of bone, and arrowheads. These had been deposited in a burial mound which had been constructed even before the coming of the Seminole tribes to Florida...
...Wonder, Manager Del Baker started Floyd Giebell, a right-handed rookie brought up from Buffalo only ten days before. A gawky stringbean who had lost more games this season than he had won, Rookie Giebell looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound. But no lamb was Giebell that day. With cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer, the green-as-grass rookie shut out the Indians...
...getting visas to reach the site. After they got there they were officially advised to go home. When they decided to stay and cabled Chicago for funds, officials shrugged, obligingly transmitted the cable without further ado. In the message they also dolefully revealed that at the top of the mound, which they had to cut through, were the remains of some 70.000 human bodies, apparently buried there after fighting or massacres in World...