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...recently found bones of Proconsul's forearm and hand spoiled this theory. According to Anatomists John Napier and Peter Davis of the University of London, they clearly belonged to a brachiator, a creature that swung by its hands from bough to bough. So Proconsul must have been an ape, perhaps an ancestor of modern apes but not of non-brachiating man. The true missing link is still to be found...
Three of the Princeton eating clubs: Charter, Key and Seal, and Quadrangle, will be open to Harvard students on Saturday night. The bands of Ben Cutler, "Wild Bill" Davidson, and Ben Napier will furnish the music...
Infiltration. In Hazard, Ky., police ended an eight-year search for Elhanon Napier, charged with horse stealing, when they found him employed as a cook at the city jail...
...Ritchie, living off his capital in order to pursue a treatise on the magnetic powers of crystals, is amusingly handled by Alan Napier. James and Sarah, who have both inherited their father's sovereign contempt for details, are well played by Robert Duke and Patricia Wheel, though the parts are largely foils for Miss Johns...
...fairly routine gangster melodrama in which the hero (Burt Lancaster) is led into a whole mess of trouble by his alluring ex-wife (Yvonne de Carlo). But it is sharply directed by Robert Siodmak and enlivened with some fresh bits of business. Samples: a jug-nursing old gentleman (Alan Napier) who makes a specialty of planning complex holdups; the robbery of an armored car (in which Lancaster is a guard), a rare sport among real-life or cinema crooks; so much double-crossing that the cast almost needs military maps to remind them who is on whose side...