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...bones. Then Lea Wymer found something odd in the same deep stratum: a bit of black stuff the size of her fingernail which looked like rock but felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural History, who is the leading authority on Swanscombe man. Last week Dr. Oakley announced that the black objects are carbon, probably charcoal from the campfires of shadowy Swanscombe man. If the first Englishmen possessed fire, they must have climbed quite a way in cultural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fire? | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Petticoat Rustle. Not only is the TV western riding hell-for-leather in the ratings; it is turning woman-conscious in an effort to widen its audience. CBS's Annie Oakley frankly aims at showing that the female is more deadly than the male, and on NBC's Frontier, the rustle of petticoats is fast drowning out the creak of chaps. In last week's show, plucky Beverly Garland, though frail, put-upon and pregnant, drove her weak-spirited menfolk and a herd of cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...prey in a proper state of torpor, the caterpillar-hunting wasp sometimes shoots the caterpillar 13 times, once for each segment. That deadeyed Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Friendly Sharpshooter | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...Delmar Jackson's The Cut of the Axe; Rocco Fumento's Devil by the Tail; S. Leonard Rubenstein's World, Barbed Wire; Eugene Brown's Trespass; Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood; and Oakley Hall's Corpus of Joe Bailey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

After losing to Yale, 7 to 0 yesterday at New Haven, the varsity golf squad will wind up its season this weekend with the New England Intercollegiate Championships which start today at the Oakley Country Club. The freshman golf team also closes its season with a final match today, against the Yale Pups at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers End Season With New Englands | 5/14/1954 | See Source »

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