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Eliot and Dunster, for example, are basing their parietal extension on the premise that a dance without an orchestra is not "organized." The typical understanding of the word 'dance' implies a big affair," Joseph C. Oakley '54, Dunster dance chairman, explained yesterday...
Among the doubting Thomases about Piltdown man were the British Museum's Dr. K. P. Oakley and Oxford Professors J. E. Weiner and W. E. Le Gros Clark. They knew that when bones lie in the earth for a very long time, they accumulate fluorine. When the skeptics got around to a careful analysis, it showed that the relics of Piltdown man did not have enough fluorine to be extremely ancient. The skull fragments may be 50,000 years old, the age of many other human bones found throughout Europe. The jawbone, according to the scientists' report...
...fuller explanation of the "amazing fraud" was contained in a letter received yesterday by Hallam L. Movius, Jr. '30, associate professor of anthropology and curator of Palacolithic Archeology from Kenneth P. Oakley of the British Museum...
...Oakley explained that the basis of calling the skull a fraud was the discovery that the ape-like "Piltdown" jaw is actually that of a modern ape which had been treated with a chemical to make it appear a "fossil." When found in a Piltdown, England, gravel pit in 1911, the shape of the jaw led scientists to call it at least 100,000 and possibly 600,000 years old. The cranium itself is a genuine fossil, but the scientists now say it is only 50,000 years...
...idea, apparently, was to send yet another dog after the scraps from Annie Get Your Gun's box-office banquet. Instead of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill, the lovers in this opus are Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok, together with such a subsidiary tangle of interlocking triangles that the audience may need a logarithm table to figure...