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...those days eastern Oregon was an area of large lakes surrounded by lush, subtropical forests. Hancock's ancient proboscidian had probably lumbered into , a prehistoric mire, got stuck there and died on his feet, his head reaching up to the level where the jawbone was uncovered ages later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Postman's Mastodon | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...believed. "Guess Who," reads the caption under a domestic scene in which the not-so-little woman has sneaked up on her man from behind and blindfolded him with her bosom. Now 35, Partch has already drawn a man with as many as 19 fingers; he stamps out ugly, proboscidian heads as though he had gone berserk with a giant cookie-cutter. His special bugaboo: meeting his public. "They expect me to be weird, but I refuse, and they're obviously disappointed." But on the printed page he is still as weird as Price and Arno are wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful & Weird | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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