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...Manhattan's rambling American Museum of Natural History, a dozen TV men each week pore over thousands of feet of scientific film. The result: Adventure (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS-TV) one of the best popular-science shows on the air, put together from film clips, exhibits and commentaries by outstanding scientists. Last week, after looking into the lives of tarantulas, garden toads, dinosaurs and grass snakes. Adventure got around to a new species: the American woman...
...gold at Fort Knox was no more zealously guarded last week than Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's long-awaited book. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. At the University of Indiana in Bloomington, newspaper and magazine writers were allowed to pore over galley proofs on one condition: none but their editors must be told what is in the book until Aug. 20. Summaries of not more than 5,000 words may then be published. Finally (the exact date is still a secret), Kinsey (and W. B. Saunders Co.) will publish the book itself...
...only human and perhaps foolish. There was that matter of the $5,000 commission he picked up for selling an airplane. There was his wife's famed mink coat. "My wife loved that coat," he drawled. "She loved it and petted it like a firstborn child. Now, the pore thing, she'll never put it on again. I think she sold...
...that has been missing since 1891: the original state constitution.) He has expanded a program of restoring historic landmarks. And he has organized more than 1,000 junior chapters from which aspiring young historians sally forth to interview reminiscing oldtimers, stir up the dust in long-neglected attics and pore over half-forgotten town records...
...McMillin, 53, All-America backfield man and for 14 years coach at the University of Indiana; of a heart attack induced by cancer; in Bloomington, Ind. Texas-born "Bo" won fame in 1921 as quarterback of little Centre College's "Praying Colonels." In 1945, he coached his "pore little boys" at Indiana to their only Western Big Ten football championship...