Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prehistoric man, said to have lived in what is now the Mount Carmel district in Palestine a thousand centuries ago and brought to the University's Peabody Museum by the scientist who unearthed him, will be the most difficult to see of all the University celebrities for the next few months...
...rather his skull, for the rest of him has been apportioned out in Britain and Palestine-was assembled only for the press Tuesday, and then carefully concealed by Museum attendants mindful of his value as the oldest museum specimen at large in this country...
...Theodore McCown, of the University of California, who dug up the specimen, brought him to Hugh O. Hencken, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research, whose office is in the Museum...
...Lennep with his usual genial air urges all visitors to return again with a guest; and despite the collection's great intrinsic quality, Van Lennep asserts, "The collection is not a museum piece. It is here to be used by anyone who is interested in any phase of the theatre...
...changed its tune. Said Publisher Smart: "The Varga Girl gave you the idea she couldn't do anything but recline. The new Esquire Girl is more wholesome. She's the kind of a girl you'd marry, or try to. She'll be regular art-museum stuff...